Discover king, art collector, painting collector Philip IV (King of Spain)

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: Philip IV of Spain
Filips IV van Spanje
Felipe IV

Qualifications: king, art collector, painting collector, collector of Dutch and Flemish painting, collector of Italian painting
considered one of the greatest art connoisseurs in Europe in the 17th c. (Brown 1995, p. 145); educated in the taste of painting by some of the most relevant connoisseurs of his time, such as Balthazar Gerbier, Cassiano dal Pozzo and Peter Paul Rubens (Ubeda de los Cobos 2005, p. 46)

Nationality/school: Spanish

Born: Valladolid (city, Spain) 1605-04-08

Deceased: Madrid (city, Spain) 1665-09-17

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of king Philip III and Margaret of Austria; father of king Charles II

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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16 hits in RKDimages as provenance
9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Madrid (stad, Spanje) 1621 - 1665
king of Spain from March 31, 1621 until his death; king of Portugal from March 31, 1621 until 1640

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 67, 84, 96, 246, 277, 346; vol. 3 (1721), p. 68, 97 (as: Philips den IV)
Brown/Elliott 1980 , p. 105-140
Brown 1995 , p. 95-146
Vergara 1999 , p. 57-93, 113-168
Ubeda de los Cobos 2005 , p. 45-62
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

J.R. Martin, 'Rubens's last Mythological Paintings for Phlip IV', Gentse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis 24 (1976-‘78), p. 113-118
D. Howarth, 'Rubens and Philip IV: a Reappraisal', in: Hans Vlieghe and Katlijne Van der Stighelen (eds), Sponsors of the Past. Flemish Art and Patronage 1550-1700, Turnhout 2005, p. 47-60
Th. Greub, '"Das achte Weltwunder": Die Kunstsammlung Philipps IV. im Alcazar von Madrid' [review G. Martinez Leiva and A. Rodriguez Rebollo, El Inventario del Alcazar de Madrid en 1666, Madrid 2015], Kunstchronik 70 (2017) no. 4, p. 197-202

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Creation date: 2011-12-18; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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