Martin Verstappen

Martin Verstappen, portrait by Ludovico Venuti, around 1800

Martin Verstappen (born August 7, 1773 in Antwerp , † January 17, 1853 in Rome ) was a Belgian landscape painter and lithographer .

life and work

A chapel on the road from Albano to Ariccia , after 1814

Martin Verstappen received his training from Petrus van Regemorter and Hendrik Aarnout Myin at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp . He stayed temporarily in Dresden , Frankfurt am Main and Aschaffenburg and lived in Rome from 1804. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca . In 1810 he received a gold medal in Paris. He was a knight of the Leopold Order . His tomb is in the Church of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi in Rome.

Verstappen painted ideal Italian landscapes, mostly with the sun setting.

Michelangelo Pacetti and Massimo d'Azeglio are among his students .

literature

• Paul André Roger: biography générale des belges morts ou vivants; hommes politiques, membres des assemblées délibérantes, ecclésiastiques, militaires, savants, artistes et gens de lettres. Brussels 1849, p. 248 ( digitized version ).
• Verstappen, Martin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 34 : Urliens – Vzal . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1940, p. 302 .

Web links

Commons : Martin Verstappen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 614
2. ↑ Michelangelo Pacetti , in Chiara Piva:  Pacetti, Vincenzo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 80:  Ottone I-Pansa. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2014.
3. ^ Walter Maturi:  Azeglio, Massimo Taparelli d '. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4:  Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.