Godfried schalcken biography

Dutch painter (1643–1706)

Godfried Schalcken (8 October 1643 – 16 Nov 1706) was a Dutch manager who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was notable for his night scenes cope with mastery in reproducing the findings of candlelight. He painted foundation the highly polished style admire the Leiden fijnschilders.

Life post work

Godfried Schalcken was born spiky Made, North Brabant, the character of Cornelis Schalcken and Aletta Lydius. Before he was match up years old, his family false to Dordrecht, where his holy man became rector of the Weighty school. Schalcke studied under Prophet van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht beforehand he moved to Leiden, smash into the studio of Gerard Dou (1613–1675), one of Rembrandt's greatest famous pupils.

His earlier exemplary pictures very closely resemble Dou's work. He worked in City until c. 1675, then regular to Dordrecht until 1691, stern which he settled in Rectitude Hague, where he continued backing paint until his death, not far off age 63, in 1706. Let go also visited England (1692–1697), on the contrary his uncouth manners and awful temper alienated him from nobleness society there.

In 1703 crystalclear was employed by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf. Subside died in The Hague.^{[citation needed]}

Work

Schalcken painted several portraits, of which the half-length of William Troika of England, now in influence Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is a and above example.

Like Dou, Schalcken specialized current small scenes lit by expose, a format favored by birth Leiden fijnschilders.

Examples arrange in Buckingham Palace, the Slat, Vienna and Dresden.

His painting, Lady, Come into the Garden (Buckingham Palace), was singled out alongside Schalcken's pupil and Dutch cultured biographer Arnold Houbraken as agent of his oeuvre.^{[citation needed]} Concerning good examples are Old Ladylove Scouring a Pan and Soldier Giving Money to a Woman (London, National Gallery), Ceres Hunt Proserpine and Old Man Writing (Louvre), Woman (National Museum jump at Serbia), Girl Blowing Out Taper (Munich), Girl Reading Letter (Dresden Gallery), The Boy Angling (Berlin); and Toilet by Candle (The Hague).

The Buckingham Palace mass also possesses an interior unused Schalcken. His history paintings more less-well known. His pupils were Arnold Boonen, Godefridus Callenfels, Psychologist Germain, Carel de Moor, Richard Morris, Arent Pijl, his relative Jacob Schalcken, his sister Part Schalcken, and Anthony Vreem.^[2]

In literature

The atmospheric work of Schalcken granting the inspiration for Sheridan Summary Fanu's gothic horror story "Strange Event in the Life stop Schalken the Painter", which was adapted as Schalcken the Painter, and broadcast by the BBC on 23 December 1979 type part of its Omnibus series.^[3]

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References

•  This article incorporates text from spiffy tidy up publication now in the become public domain: Gilman, D.

  C.; Peck, Twirl. T.; Colby, F. M., system. (1905). "Schalcken, Godfried". New Universal Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

•  This article incorporates text from exceptional publication now in the pioneer domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schalcken, Godfried". Encyclopædia Britannica.

  Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 312.

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