Nicolaes Jonghelinck

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Nicolaes Jonghelinck (* 1517 ; † 1570 ) was a merchant, banker (tax officer) and art collector in Antwerp . He is known as a client and collector of the works of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Frans Floris . His brother is the sculptor Jacques Jonghelinck (1530–1606).

Iongelinck . Detail from a plan of the Antwerp area (1582)

From a guarantee of February 15, 1566, which he signed for his friend Daniel de Bruyne , who was in debt with 16,000 guilders , it is known that he was in possession of sixteen pictures of Bruegel, including The Tower of Babel , Christ Carrying the Cross and the Seasons . In addition, a ten-part Hercules cycle by Frans Floris appears here, today only preserved in engravings . Jonghelinck owned a country house on the outskirts of Antwerp, where his collection of paintings was probably located. The land for this was acquired in 1547 by his brother Jacques, who also built the country house and sold it to Nicolaes in 1554. It is still on a map of the Antwerp area from 1582. It was destroyed along with other mansion buildings during the siege of Antwerp in 1584.

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The name also appears in literature as Niclaes Jonghelinck and Nicolaas Jongelinck .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original date is February 15, 1565 - in Jonghelinck's time the New Year began in the Netherlands at Easter. See also: Christian Gräf - The Winter Pictures by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. P. 12f.
  2. ↑ Christian Gräf - The Winter Pictures by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä. , VDM Verlag Dr. Müller 2009 p. 12f ISBN 978-3-639-12775-1
  3. ^ Christian Vöhringer - Pieter Bruegel. 1525 / 30-1569 , Tandem Verlag 2007 (hfullmann imprint) p. 116f ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2
  4. ^ The winter pictures of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Ä., P. 18
personal data
SURNAME Jonghelinck, Nicolaes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jongelinck, Nicolaas; Jonghelinck, Niclaes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish merchant, banker (tax officer) and art collector
DATE OF BIRTH 1517
DATE OF DEATH 1570