Discover painter, draftsperson, merchant Jacob Esselens

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: Esselijns, Jacob

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, merchant
merchant in silk and velvet, selling his merchandise in the whole of Europe

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1627/1628
1627/28: claimed to be 40 years old on 20 April 1668 (De Vries 1885)

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1687-01/1687-01-15
buried 15 January 1687

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: notice of marriage 20 April 1668 with Janneken Jans from Amsterdam (De Vries 1885)

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125 hits in RKDimages as artist
4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1066 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Amsterdam (stad) 1646 - 1662
c. 1646-1687
Engeland 1662
c. 1662; went as a trader in fabrics and silk to England and Scotland (Bredius 1916, p. 549)
Schotland 1662
c. 1662; went as a trader in fabrics and silk to England and Scotland (Bredius 1916, p. 549)
Amsterdam (stad) 1663
Arnhem (plaats) 1663
Rhenen (plaats) 1663
Kleef 1663
traveled with Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout and Jan Lievens along the Rhine, in Cleves they made drawings of the Schwanenburg and its surroudings
Amsterdam (stad) 1664
Parijs 1665
Frankrijk
The art dealer J.P. Zomer owned 'een boek over dwars ... 15 stuks landscappen in Vrankrijk na 't leven getekent... met nog 6 dito's' (Bredius 1916, p. 58)
Italië
regularly travels to France, Italy, England and Scotland for business
Volterra
RKDimages 196400
Amsterdam (stad) 1687

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Connections with other artists

Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Fargue, Karel la

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.: landscape (genre), beach scene, winter landscape, italianate, portrait, architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 5 (1859), p. 229 (as: Jacob Esselens)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 11 (1915), p. 43
Bredius 1915-1921 , vol. 2 (1916), p. 549-556; vol. 7 (1921), p. 58-59
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 48-49, 203, 292, 399, 401
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 6 [1952], p. 152
Stechow 1966 , p. 109
Bol 1973 , p. 247-249
Witt Checklist 1978
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998)
Kollmann 2000 , p. 190
Saur 1992- , vol. 35 (2003), p. 155
Alsteens/Buijs/Mathot 2008 , p. 311-319
Levert 2017A , Dossier prosopographique

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (II), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 135-160; p. 142
H. Reitlinger, 'Two Seventeenth-Century Views of London', The Burlington Magazine 68 (1936), p. 294–295
S. Gudlaugsson, 'Een figuurstudie van Jacob Esselens te Besançon', Mededelingen van het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie 5, in Oud Holland 66 (1951), p. 62-63
P.H. Hulton, 'Drawings of England by Willem Schellinks, Jacob Esselens & Lambert Doomer from the van der Hem Atlas of the National Library, Vienna', The Walpole Society 35 (1954-1956) (2 vols.), London 1959
W. Stechow, 'A portrait by Jacob Esselens', Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 21 (1963) no. 1, p. 3-9

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External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-12-14; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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