Lieve Verschuier

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Catching in front of the boompjes on the Maas near Rotterdam
Arrival of King Charles II of England in Rotterdam on May 24, 1660

Lieve Verschuier (* around 1634 possibly in Rotterdam ; † before December 17, 1686 there ) was a Dutch painter of the 17th century. Most of his work deals with maritime topics .

Life

Many biographies use Pieterszoon as a middle name. This comes from the alleged paternity of a sculptor Pieter Verschuier. However, only a Cornelis and not Lieve Verschuier is documented as his son.

Neither date of birth nor date of death are known for certain of his life dates. Only the date of his funeral is documented. In 1670 he declared to be 36 years old, so that one comes to a year of birth around 1634. In 1652 he lived in Amsterdam for a year , because an Adriaentge Baersbanck declared that she had nothing to do with him. He is later mentioned as a companion of the Utrecht painter Johannes van der Meer on the trip to Rome . This trip could have taken place around 1655.

In Hillegersberg near Rotterdam he married Catharina Akershoeck on September 24, 1656. For 1667 he was on record as the owner of a house on the Maes ofte Merwe in Rotterdam. He is referred to as a citizen and a sculptor. As a sculptor and painter he was temporarily employed in 1674 for 6 months at the Admiralty shipyard . His daily wage was 36 stuiver . Mentioned again as a sculptor and painter, a house on the Visschersdijk was transferred to him in 1678. In the same year he becomes captain of the Luke guild of sculptors and stonemasons. However, he was also mentioned as a portrait painter . In 1683 the painter and picture cutter Verschuier made a will. On November 23, 1686, he revoked this will, although he was sick in bed. On December 17, 1686 he was buried in the French Church. His widow, that Catharina Akershoek, was mentioned as living in the Boompjes in the brewery of "Den Arent".

Lieve Verschuier had a brother named Aelbrecht. Lieve made him a universal heir in 1652, but he died in 1680 and was buried in Rotterdam on July 16. There are other Verschuiers in Rotterdam known and temporarily employed by the Admiralty. Once an Abraham 1646 is known as a goldsmith, a Pieter as a sculptor, whose son Cornelis is also known as a picture cutter. Maybe they were family members.

It is possible that the effect of the sculptural work can also be found in his paintings. The carved figures on the stern of the ships look very plastic. It is a seldom seen phenomenon in the ranks of marine painters. A painting in Weimar shows elements that would later apply to his work. However, it is attributed to Hendrik de Meyer, who also worked in Rotterdam from 1637 to 1683. Since this work is scheduled around 1663, Meyer could have been von Verschuier's teacher. The lighting, described as wonderful Italian light, is also described as intended by the French painter Claude Lorrain . Since Lorrain was in Rome, it could be that Verschuier got to know him or his works there.

literature

  • Laurens J. Bol: Dutch marine painting of the 17th century . Wuerzburg 1973.
  • Jeroen Giltaij, Jan Kelch (ed.): Lords of the seas, masters of art. The Dutch seascape in the 17th century . Berlin, Rotterdam 1996, ISBN 90-6918-174-6 .
  • George S. Keyes: Mirror of empire. Dutch marine art of the seventeenth century . Minneapolis 1990, ISBN 0-521-39328-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lieve Verschuier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Houbraken: De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen . 1718-1721, part 3, p. 291
  2. ^ Entry in the online catalog of the museums of the Weimar Classic Foundation
personal data
SURNAME Verschuier, Lieve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH before December 17, 1686
Place of death Rotterdam