Discover painter, draftsperson, guildmaster Abraham Janssens (I)

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: Janssen, Abraham
Janssens van Nuyssen, Abraham
Nuyssen, Abraham Janssens van
Jasegna, Abraam

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, guildmaster

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1575
according to Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, vol. 1, p. 293, note 5, he was baptized on 15 January 1567. As Van den Branden 1883 argues, this cannot be true, as the names of the parents of this child do not tally. Furthermore, Van den Branden 1883 states, that Janssens is recorded as being fifty six years old in his last will of 17 September 1631. That gives his birthdate as 1575. According to Saur 2021 neither his birthplace as Antwerp nor his birthdate as 'c. 1575' is ascertained and rests solely on tradition (JKO, December 2021).

Deceased: Antwerp (city) 1632-01/1632-01-25
buried on 25 January 1632 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, vol. 1, p. 239, note 5); his death duties were met between 18 September 1631 and 18 September 1632 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jan Janssen and Roelofken van Nuysen. Married in Antwerp on 1 May 1602 to Sara Goetkint (died Antwerp 7 april 1644), with whom he had 8 children; five children were alive at the time of their mother's death: Maria Anna (wife of Jan Brueghel II), Sara, Catharina, Lucretia and Abraham II (1644 in Italy)

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Snijders, Frans

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Antwerpen (stad) 1584 - 1597
apprentice in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp in 1584 (master in 1601 after his return from Rome) (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, vol.1, p. 239)
Rome 1597 - 1601
c. 1597-c. 1601/2; lived and worked with his teacher Guilliam van Nieulandt I; inscribed his name ('Abraham Jansssens van Antwerpen') in the catacombs of Domitilla (Hensen 1916)
Antwerpen (stad) 1601 - 1632
master in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp in 1601, 2nd dean in 1606, 1st dean in 1607 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961). Married on 1 May 1602 with Sara Goetkint from Antwerp; in 1610, together with Sebastiaen Vrancx accepted in the 'Confrerie der Romanisten' (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872, vol.1, p. 293, note 5)

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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.: Nieulandt, Guilliam van (I)
Snellinck, Jan (I)
with Snellinck in 1585
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.: Bollogni, Bartholomeus
Campo, Giovanni del
Desubleo, Michele
Heyde, Abraham de
Janssens, Abraham (II)
Régnier, Nicolas
Rombouts, Theodoor
Seghers, Gerard
Wils, Steven

Steven Wils in 1607; Bartholomeus Bollieni (september 1617-September 1618), Peeter Francisco Lelliyo september 1622-September 1623)

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.: Christian religious scene, history (genre), portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Caravaggisti

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 65-73
Sandrart/Peltzer 1675/1925
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1, p. 65, 79-80 (as: Abraham Janszen)
Antwerp 1857/1863 , p. 149-151
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 1, p. 293, 416, 434, 440, 445, 512, 539, 541*, 581, 585, 631
Van den Branden 1883 , p. 478-482
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 18 (1925)I, p. 411-413 (as: Janssens, Abraham (I))
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 10, 116, 118, 120, 314
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 9 [1953], p. 177
Bodart 1970 , p. 53-62
Nicolson 1979 , vol. 1, p. 129-130
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 4 (1989), p. 135, no. 979; vol. 5 (1991), p. 81-82, no. 1237 [regarding a bet with the late Janssens]; p. 137, no. 1278 (regarding the authenticity of a painting); p. 153-154, no. 1294 (testament Sara Goetkint)
Coekelberghs 1993 , p. 14-19, no. 3
Vlieghe 1998 , p. 20-22; 39-42; 316 (bibliography)
Weller et al. 1998 , p. 143-154
Balis 2005 , p. 271-283 (J. Müller Hofstede, 'Zwei neue Frühwerke von Abraham Janssens')
Pauwels et al. 2006 , p. 534-556 (J. Vander Auweraa, ' Over het blijvend nut van archivalisch onderzoek voor de kunstgeschiedenis . Drie beknopte gevalstudies')
Vodret 2011 , p. 80, 138, 173, 193 (no. 8)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.H.L. Hensen, ‘Nederlanders op het eind der zestiende eeuw in de catacombe van Domitilla’, De katholiek: godsdienstig, geschied- en letterkundig maandschrift 149 (1916), p. 410-423, esp. p. 421, 422
R. Oldenbourg, 'Abraham Janssens', in: P. Clemen, Belgische Kunstdenkmäler, Brussels 1923, p. 243-258
N. Pevsner, 'Some Notes on Abraham Janssens', The Burlington Magazine 69 (1936), p. 120-129
D. Roggen, H. Pauwels, A. de Schryver, 'Het Caravaggisme te Gent', Gentse Bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis, 12 (1949-1950), p. 255-321 (résumé français)
J. Müller Hofstede, E. Brochagen, 'Abraham Janssens. Zur Problematik des flämischen Caravaggismus', Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 13 (1971), p. 208-303
G.J.M. Weber, 'Die Rekonstruktion einer Serie der Vier Jahreszeiten aus dem Kreis von Abraham Janssens' in: Rheydter Jahrbuch 21 (1994), p. 211-225
H. Benesz, 'A painting in the National Museum in Warsaw identified as the Entombment by Abraham Janssens from the Church of the Calced Carmelites in Antwerp', Oud Holland 115 (2001/2002), p. 200-210
G. Janczarski, 'Technical analysis of Abraham Janssens' Entombment in the National Museum in Warsaw*', Oud Holland 115 (2001-2002), p. 211-216
J. Vander Auwera, Milieu en oeuvre van Abraham Janssen Nuyssen (ca.1571/75-1632), "een seer fameus meester ende schilder in synen levene". Een bijdrage tot de studie van de historieschilderkunst in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden tijdens de eerste helft van de zeventiende eeuw, PhD (Ghent, University of Ghent, prof. Van Damme; source: Kunstchronik 9/10-2003, p. 536)
P. Descamps, 'Le Noli me tangere d'Abraham Janssens peint en collaboration avec Jan Wildens, au musée des Beaux-arts de Dunkerque', Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France, no. 4 (October 2004), p. 57-60

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Archive location: archief Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff
Project: Gerson Digital : Italy

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1994-01-11; Last modified date: 2023-07-07

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