Philips Angel (van Leiden)
Philips Angel (van Leiden) (* 1618 in Leiden ; † after July 11, 1664 in Batavia, now Jakarta ) was a Dutch painter , engraver and art writer, he also worked as an agent and merchant for the East India Company . Today he is relevant as the author of a 58-page booklet that was published in Leiden in 1642 and is the only evidence of Dutch art theory around the middle of the Golden Age .
Life
Philips Angel was probably a cousin of the slightly older painter of the same name from Middelburg . He became a master painter in Leiden in 1638, but no works by him are known - except for an inferior engraving in the style of Rembrandt . In 1645 Angel gave up his position as chairman of the Guild of St. Luke and worked for the East India Company in Batavia (now Jakarta). From 1653 - dismissed due to mismanagement - he worked as a court painter at the Persian court of Shah Abbas II. In 1656 he returned to Batavia and probably died there after 1664.
plant
His work Lof der schilder-konst is the copy of a speech that Angel gave in 1641 on St. Luke's Day - the day of the patron saint of painters - in Leiden as an invitation to found a Guild of Luke . The work is divided into three parts: the first half lists the most famous painters from antiquity to the middle of the 17th century and compares painting, poetry and rhetoric with each other in topoi common to art theory. The second half deals with skills that should characterize a good artist . In this part, the author touches on newly emerged sub-genres such as seascapes, skirmishes and guardroom scenes - this is the first time that they have been included in art literature. However, Angel devotes most of his speech - quite conventionally - to history painting. His demands - for example for the correspondence between characters and circumstances with the essence of the action depicted - are consistent with the ideas of the so-called pre-Rembrandtists, which points to contacts with the painters of this direction and possibly Rembrandt himself.
literature
- P. Angel: Lof der schilder-konst (Leiden, 1642, reprint: Utrecht, 1969, facsimile edition: Amsterdam, 1972)
- L. Bol: Philips Angel van Middelburg and Philips Angel van Leiden , Oud-Holland, lxiv (1949), pp. 2-19
- H. Miedema: De terminologie van Philips Angels 'Lof der schilder-konst' (Amsterdam, 1975)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angel, Philips |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Angel van Leiden, Philips |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter, engraver and art writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1618 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suffer |
| DATE OF DEATH | after July 11, 1664 |
| Place of death | Batavia |