Pieter Christoffel Wonder

Pieter Christoffel Wonder , self-portrait 1803

Pieter Christoffel Wonder (born January 10, 1777 in Utrecht , Republic of the Seven United Provinces , † July 12, 1852 in Amsterdam , Netherlands ) was a Dutch portrait , genre , interior and history painter .

Life

Conversation at John Murray's home with Colonel Milner, Lady Milner, and Mrs. Juliana Crutchley , 1825

Patrons and art lovers in a gallery (De Kunstgalerij van Murray) , 1830

According to his own account, Wonder, the sixth of ten children of the Evangelical Lutheran entrepreneur Johan Jacob Wonder from Utrecht and his wife Anna Geertruy Bergfeld from Lennep ( Duchy of Berg ), taught himself to paint as an autodidact , especially as a copyist of paintings by old masters. He also received lessons from the Utrecht painter Theodorus de Reuver (1762-1808). In 1804/1805 he attended the Gemäldegalerie Düsseldorf and the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Johann Peter Langer and Joseph Brulliot . In the Düsseldorf gallery he copied paintings, for example by Anthonis van Dyck and Peter Paul Rubens , and in the academy he drew from casts and in nude classes. From 1806 to 1823 he worked as a painter and art teacher in Utrecht. Together with Jan Baptist Kobell (1778–1814) he founded the Schilder- en teekengenootschap Kunstliefde there in 1807 , in whose management he was active from 1809 to 1822. During this time he was supported by the Utrecht university professor and art collector Jan Bleuland , who bought many of his works. In 1817 the Amsterdam Felix Meritis Society awarded him a gold medal for a picture he had sent. Encouraged by the publisher and art collector John Murray II (1778–1843), whom he had met in 1819, he took a trip to London in 1823 . He lived and worked there from 1824 to 1832, then back in Utrecht. Unmarried all his life, he died at the age of 75 during a trip to Amsterdam.

literature

Adriaan Cock: Pieter Christoffel Wonder, te Utrecht. Eene bijdrage, aan de nagedachtenis van wijlen dien art signs Gewijd . In: Astrea , 2nd year, Utrecht 1852, pp. 268–274 ( Google Books ).
Wonder, Pieter Christoffel . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 238 .
Ellinoor Bergvelt (editor) et al .: PC Wonder (1777-1852). Een Utrecht in London . Lecturis, Eindhoven 2015, ISBN 978-94-6226-154-9 .

Web links

Commons : Pieter Christoffel Wonder - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Pieter Christoffel Wonder , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Pieter Christoffel Wonder , biography on the resources.huygens.knaw.nl portal(Woordenboek van Nederland biographical: 1780–1830)
Pieter Christoffel Wonder , Auction Results on the Portal artnet .com

Individual evidence

↑ Roeland van Eijnden, Adriaan van der Willigen: Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, sedert de Help the XVIII Eeuw . Volume 3, Haarlem 1820, p. 240 ( Google Books )

personal data
SURNAME	Wonder, Pieter Christoffel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch portrait, genre, interior and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1777
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht , Republic of the Seven United Provinces
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1852
Place of death	Amsterdam , Netherlands

[1] Roeland van Eijnden, Adriaan van der Willigen: Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst, sedert de Help the XVIII Eeuw . Volume 3, Haarlem 1820, p. 240 ( Google Books )