Discover art theorist, playwright, art critic Andries Pels

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Qualifications: art theorist, playwright, art critic, poet, lawyer, director
director of the theatre (1678-1680)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1631-10/1631-10-19
christened on 19 October 1631

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1681-07-03
buried on 6 July 1681

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Andries Pels (1591-1666) and Catharina Vegelmans (1599-1669)

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Amsterdam (stad) 1646 - 1681
co-founder of the Amsterdam Art Society 'Nil Volentibus Arduum' in 1669

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Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , passim
Molhuysen/Blok et al. 1911-1937 , vol. 2, p. 1082-1083
Timmers 1942 , p. 31, 70, 75
Emmens 1979 , p. 88-93 & passim
Den Leeuw/Pruijs 2006 , p. 222, 266, 260
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Jan Vos (1610-1667)', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 72 (1980), p. 23-43
T. Harmsen, 'Gebruik en misbruik van de rhetorica door Nil Volentibus Arduum', De zeventiende eeuw 4 (1988), no. 2, p. 55-68
B. Cornelis, 'A reassessment of Arnold Houbraken's Groote Schouwburgh', Simiolus 23 (1995), p. 163-180; p. 171ff

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 1047: 292

External links: this author in Ecartico

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Creation date: 2011-07-24; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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