Palamedes Palamedesz (painter, 1607)

Attack by Imperial Dragoons on enemy infantry , around 1630.

Cavalry battle , 1626/28

Portrait of Friedrich Heinrich of Orange , 1638

Palamedes Palamedesz (* 1607 in London , † March 26, 1638 in Delft ), also called Stevers, Stevens or Stevaerts , was a Dutch battle and portrait painter .

Life

Palamdesz was born in London because his father, a Flemish man who made dishes such as cups, bowls or vases from agate , jasper , porphyry and similar precious stones, had traveled to King James of Scotland for an assignment . Since his stay there at court in London was to last for a long time, he was accompanied by his pregnant wife, who gave birth to her son there. The family then returned to Delft, where the boy was raised and lived for life. Most of the skills he acquired autodidactically, so he copied pictures by the painter Esaias van de Velde , which influenced his style so much that his own cavalry battles and war scenes were very similar. In 1627, at the age of 20, he was accepted as a master in the painters' guild of the city of Delft. In 1631 Palamedesz was in Antwerp , where he was portrayed by Anthony van Dyck . He was a student of his older brother, Anthonie Palamedesz. who joined the Delft Lucas guild in 1636.

Works by him can be found in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich and in the Army History Museum in Vienna . He made some of the paintings together with Esaias van de Velde, such as the camp scene (123 × 190 cm) at which van der Velde designed the landscapes and Palamedesz. the figures.

Works (selection)

Attack of imperial dragoons on enemy infantry in the Thirty Years' War , oil on canvas, approx. 50 × 75 cm, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Vienna.
Battle of the riders on the water , 1630, oil on panel, 46.5 × 74.5 cm, Museum Het Prinsenhof Delft
Cavalry battle , 1626/28, oil on panel, 53 × 78 cm, Stockholm University art collection

Cavalry battle , 1635, German Historical Museum , Berlin

Portrait of Friedrich Heinrich of Orange , 1638

The dance of fools , oil on panel, 84 × 114 cm

Equestrian skirmish , 47 × 63 cm

literature

Palamadesz, Palmades I . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 155-156 .
Arnold Houbraken : Arnold Houbraken's great schouburgh of the Dutch painters (= sources for art history and art technology of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . Volume 14 ). tape 1 . Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1880, p. 132–133 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Dutch: De groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen . Translated by Wolfgang von Wurzbach ).

Web links

Commons : Palamedes Palamedesz. - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Palamedes Palamedesz, called Stevaerts . In: Königliche Elderen Pinakothek (Hrsg.): Catalog of the painting collection of the Kgönigliche Älteren Pinakothek in Munich . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1901, p. 114 , nos. 492 and 493 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ Palamadesz, Palmades I . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 155-156 .

↑ Anthony van Dyck . In: Königliche Elderen Pinakothek (Hrsg.): Catalog of the painting collection of the Kgönigliche Älteren Pinakothek in Munich . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1901, p. 187 , No. 859: Portrait of the battle painter Palamedes Palamedesz ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Room I - From the beginnings of the standing army to the end of the 17th century. Salzburg 1982, p. 27.

↑ Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (Hrsg.): Catalog of an important painting gallery of old Dutch masters from the property of Mr. HJ Degens van Kervendonk . Berlin 1893, p. 27–28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

↑ Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 147.

↑ Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (ed.): Paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries . Berlin 1915, p. 15 , plate 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - together with Esaias van de Velde).

personal data
SURNAME	Palamedesz, Palamedes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Palamedesz., Palamedes I; Palamedessen, Palamedes; Stevers, Palamedes; Stevens, Palamedes; Stevaerts, Palamedes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1607
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1638
Place of death	Delft

[1] Palamedes Palamedesz, called Stevaerts . In: Königliche Elderen Pinakothek (Hrsg.): Catalog of the painting collection of the Kgönigliche Älteren Pinakothek in Munich . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1901, p. 114 , nos. 492 and 493 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[2] Palamadesz, Palmades I . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 155-156 .

[3] Anthony van Dyck . In: Königliche Elderen Pinakothek (Hrsg.): Catalog of the painting collection of the Kgönigliche Älteren Pinakothek in Munich . Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1901, p. 187 , No. 859: Portrait of the battle painter Palamedes Palamedesz ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[4] Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. Room I - From the beginnings of the standing army to the end of the 17th century. Salzburg 1982, p. 27.

[5] Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (Hrsg.): Catalog of an important painting gallery of old Dutch masters from the property of Mr. HJ Degens van Kervendonk . Berlin 1893, p. 27–28 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

[6] Klaus Bußmann , Heinz Schilling : 1648 - War and Peace in Europe. Catalog volume and two text volumes, Münster 1998 [Documentation of the Council of Europe exhibition on the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia in Münster and Osnabrück.] Münster / Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-88789-127-9 , p. 147.

[7] Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (ed.): Paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries . Berlin 1915, p. 15 , plate 21 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - together with Esaias van de Velde).