Discover painter, court painter Raphael Coxie

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: Coxcie, Raphael
Coxcie, Raphael van
Coxcie, Raphael de
Coxie, Rafael

Qualifications: painter, court painter

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish (school)

Born: Mechelen 1540
c. 1540

Deceased: Brussels 1616

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: eldest son from the first marriage of Michiel I and Ida van Hasselt, brother of Anna and Willem/Guillaume, half brother of Michiel II. Married to 1) on 6 April 1577 in the Parish of St. Rombaut Jeanne van Bukerke/Bekerke from Middelburg (died in Malines), mother of Cornelis (Neeffs 1876); 2) (no place, no date) Elisabeth Cauthals, daughter of Jan and Margriet Vydts, who died before 1582 (Neeffs 1876) and 3) (no place, no date) c. 1584 Anna Jonghelinck, daughter of the sculptor Jacques Jonghelincx and Françoise van der Jeught (who died in Brussels on 18 November 1637 (Neeffs 1876), with whom he got a son Raphael, baptized 20 January 1585 in Antwerp cathedral (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, p. 290-291, note1): none of his children followed in his artistic footsteps (Neeffs 1876)

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Mechelen 1562-07-22 - 1562
master in the Guild on 22 July 1562 (Neeffs 1876); 1570/71 court painter of king Philip II
Antwerpen (stad) 1583 - 1586
Testified on 22 May 1583 concerning the marriage of his brother Guillaume, art dealer; he was also guarantor for a batch of paintings sold by Guillaume to Anthonie Palerme. On 31 August 1583 he owed 300 carolus guilders for this transaction; he lived in 1584 on the Munt; 31 March 1586 his father-in-law, artist and mintmaster Jacques Jongelincx, gave him authority to deal with his business transactions and debt collecting in Mechelen; on 9 September 1588 he made his will in Antwerp (van Hemeldonck 2007); master in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp in 1585 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961) also married in this year, for the third time. He must have been in Antwerp before though, as he took care of the Cathedral archives (see under Religious affiliation) (Neeffs 1876). On 31 October 1597 he settled the estate of his late brother Guillaume; he was in court over it with Mr. Cockaert, the 2nd husband of Guillaume's widow Catharina Bergaigne (van Hemeldonck 2007)
Brussel 1586 - 1608
while in Brussels he still worked for patrons in Antwerp, among which the Cathedral (van Hemeldonck 2007: 14 August 1589); in Brussels he lived in a house near the Royal Chapel; in 1610-1611 he lived in a house located near Mount St. Elisabeth, behind the Chapelle du serment de l'arc; in Brussels he painted the portraits of king Philip II, Queen Elisabeth de Valois, and the infanta's Anne Maria of Austria and Isabella Clara Eugenia for the Elector Frederic William of Saxony in 1596, and for the same in 1597 the portraits of Catharina of Austria, Queen of Portugal, and of Queen Mary Tudor of England, together with Gilbert van Veen (Neeffs 1876)
Gent 1589
painted a 'Resurrection' for the Abbey of Tronchiennes (no longer in existance); on 9 June 1588 he made a contract with the city council to paint the Last Judgement, delivered on 12 July 1597, still in situ (Neeffs 1876)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Coxie, Michiel (I)
first trained by his father
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Baesrode, Andries van (I)
Crayer, Gaspar de
Gracht, Gommaert van der
Gracht, Jacob van der
Heyden, Jacob van der

also master of Nicolaas van der Gracht (Neeffs 1876)

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

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Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 123 (as: Raphael Coxi (mentioned as the teacher of Casper de Crayer))
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 6 (1863), p. 1679 (under Gijsbrecht van Veen)
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol.1, p. 290-291, note 1
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 8 (1913), p. 24 (as: Coxie, Raphael)
Witt Checklist 1978
Saur 1992- , vol. 22 (1999), p. 92 (as: Coxcie, Raphael)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

'...' in: Le Messager des Sciences historiques des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique 1858, p. 172-174
E. Neeffs, Histoire de la Peinture et de la Sculpture à Malines, Ghent 1876, vol. 1, p. 174-181 (listing his most important works)
W. Rogghé, '"Het Laatste Oordeel" van Rafaël van Coxcie', Jaarboek Willems Fonds 1883, p. 57-74
J. de Ridder, 'Gerechtigheidstaferelen in de 15de en de 16de eeuw, geschilderd voor schepenhuizen in Vlaanderen', Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis 25 (1979/'80), p. 42-62, fig. 5 (Last Judgement, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts)
G. van Hemeldonck, Kunst en kunstenaars (typescript 2007), Felix Archive, Antwerp, no. S-217 (online)
D. van der Linden, 'Coping with crisis. Career strategies of Antwerp painters after 1585', De Zeventiende Eeuw31 (2015), p. 18-54, p. 43

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Creation date: 1991-12-02; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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