Discover painter, court painter, draftsperson Ferdinand van Kessel (I)

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: Kessel, Ferdinandus (I)

Qualifications: painter, court painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1648-04/1648-04-07
baptized on April 7, 1648

Deceased: Breda (place) 1702-07-29
notary archives J. Denman, Breda

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679) and Maria van Apshoven (died 1678), brother of Jan van Kessel 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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Antwerpen (stad) 1667 - 1688
According to Thieme/Becker 1927, he made his will in 1680 and in 1688 in Amsterdam, but this is clearly a mistake. Being ill, he made his will on 17 April 1680 and again on 1 December 1688, both in Antwerp (Van den Branden 1883). However, as he signed the document of 1688 as 'tegenwoordelijck wesende binnen deser stadt', he must have been based outside the city by then, probably in Breda (R. van Leeuwen, January 2023).
Breda (plaats) 1688 - 1702
Mr. Molo, a representative of the Polish king John III Sobieski who sent a few of his cabinet pieces to Poland. When these were well received, he invited van Kessel to come to Breda to make enough paintings to decorate a whole room in the Wilanów Palace. Van Kessel subsequently moved to Breda to fulfill this commission according to the taste of the Polish King. C. 1689 he became teacher of Jacob Campo Weyerman; appointed court painter of the Polish king Johann Sobieski 1694; comissioned by Willem III (Weyerman).

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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.: Kessel, Jan van (I)
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.: Kessel, Jan Thomas van
Moni, Louis de
Weyerman, Jacob Campo
Follower of: Brueghel, Jan (I)

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), animal painting (genre), fruit piece, study of insects

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

Weyerman 1729-1769 , vol. 3, p. 291-303
Van den Branden 1883 , p. 1101-1103
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 257, vol. 3 (1911), p. 51
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 20 (1927), p. 199-200 (as: Kessel, Ferdinand van)
Denucé 1949 , p. lxxxv, lxxxvi, lxxxvii, xcii
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 156 (as: Kessel, Ferdinand van)
Greindl 1983
Van der Willigen/De Kinkelder (typescript 1993/1998) (as: Ferdinand (I) van Kessel)
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 10 (1999), p. 519 (testament of 17 April 1680)
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 121 (as: Ferdinand (I) van Kessel)
Ertz/Nitze-Ertz 2012 , p. 9-12

J. Denman, Allerhande acten (Minuten), 1700 - 1702, Notariële archieven Breda, inv. no. 0448, document no. 108

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folder in BD/0356 empty on 27-05-2015

Project: Gerson Digital : Poland

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Creation date: 1992-01-11; Last modified date: 2023-08-19

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