Discover print artist, draftsperson, illuminator Simon de Passe

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: Passe, Simon van de
Passe, Simon
Pas, Simon de
Passaeus, Simon
Passeus, Simon

Qualifications: print artist, draftsperson, illuminator, art dealer (person), art agent, court artist

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish, Danish, German

Born: Keulen 1595
c. 1595

Deceased: Copenhagen 1647-05-06

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: eldest son of Crispijn van de Passe I and Madeleine de Bock (died 1635), brother of Crispijn II, Willem and Magdalena; married on 17 January 1641 in Copenhagen with Elisabeth Rasmusdatter (Munk 1994)

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15 hits in RKDimages as artist
3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
6 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Utrecht (stad) 1612 - 1615
Londen (Engeland) 1615 - 1622
He came to London in 1615 and worked at first almost exclusively for Compton Holland. Simon soon switched publisher, for his plates of 1617-8 were almost all for Sudbury & Humble. Since the Sudbury & Humble address appears to be a later addition to several plates, squeezed into a space not designed to fit it (eg. Viscount Lisle), it may be that Simon first tried to publish his plates himself, before, several months later, going over to Sudbury & Humble. Simon's last plate published in England was in 1621 (Walpole; British Museum).
Praag 1617
(Munk 1994)
Parijs 1622
visited his brother Crispijn II (Turner a.o. 1996)
Utrecht (stad) 1622 - 1624
in October 1624 he was baptised according to Mennonite rites
Kopenhagen 1624 - 1627
from letters by Christian Friis (September 1624) to agent Cornelius Wincken in The Hague, it is known that Simon de Passe was invited to come to Denmark to become engraver in the service of the university in Copenhagen; the contract dates from December 1624; in 1626 he was paid for engravings in Ole Worm's De Fastis Danicis, In 1634 he designed an invention for the riding at the tilt for the marriage of the Prince Elect and together with Karel van Mander III he designed the first court ballet ever held in Denmark, a.o. figuring Apollo and the 9 Muses (Munk 1994)
Noordelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1627 - 1630
Munk 1994
Kopenhagen 1630 - 1637
on 4 February 1637 the king and the De Passe signed a contract for 84 drawings of the old Danish kings against 5000 rix dollars; these should be made by the best Dutch artist of the time. At first these designs probably were meant for a publication. Later the idea arose to make a series op paintings for Kronborg (Munk 1994); was invited by Maria Eleonora to come to Sweden; in 1635 he got permission to travel to Sweden but there is no proof that he was there (Roosval 1952-1967)
Utrecht (stad) 1637
in Utrecht to give commissions for Kronborg Castle (Gerson 1942/1983); was on 26 November 1637 in Utrecht, to give his brother in law P. van Hemelkoers power of attorney to liquidate in name of the whole family the estate of the late Crispijn de Passe (Obreen vol.7, p. 266-267),
Utrecht (stad) 1639 - 1641
in 1639 the artist was in Utrecht to sign the contracts with Van Honthorst and other painters for the so-called Kronborg series, that were delivered to the king in 1641-1643; for the project he received 10-11.000 rix dollars on his conto; in the end there seem to have been serious problems between the king and De Passe regarding the project (Munk 1994)
Kopenhagen 1641 - 1647
after his death the king paid the descendants 300 rix dollars for the copperplates of the series concerning Denmark's history

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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.: Haelwegh, Albert
Passe, Crispijn de (III)
Payne, John

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.: portrait
made many portraits of Christian IV and members of the royal family, as well as portraits of the professors at the University of Copenhagen; bookillustrations for a.o. O. Worm, H. Lauremberg, C.R. Brochmann, C.O. Veyle (Munk 1994)

Product: book illustration

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 3 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1, p. 175, 185; vol. 3, p. 144-147
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 5 (1861), p. 1258
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) (as: Simon Pass)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 7, p. 266-267, 329
Nagler 1904-1914 , vol. 11, p. 1
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 307-308
Molhuysen/Blok et al. 1911-1937 , vol. 5 (1921), kol. 455
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 26 (1932), p. 282 (as: Passe, Simon)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 250
Gerson 1942/1983 , 264, 375, 382, 457, 458, 463, 464, 473
Roosval 1952-1967 , p. 367
Eller 1971 , p. 18, 78, 109, 116, 120, 122, 125, 128, 201, 271, 415, 440, 442
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 16 [1974], p. 149-190 (as: Passe, Simon de)
Witt Checklist 1978
Schepelern/Houkjaer 1988 , passim
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 24 (1996), p. 236 (as: Passe, Simon (van) de)
Griffiths 1998 , passim
Veldman 2001A , chapter 9

H. D. Schepelern, ’Simon de Pas og andre kobberstikkere omkring Christian IV’, Kunstmuseets Aarsskrift 38 (1951), p. 1-45
J. Roding, 'Deense koningen en Utrechtse kunstenaars', Maandblad Oud-Utrecht 54 (1981), p. 161-163
I.M. Veldman, 'Simon de Passe's Silver Engraved Plates and Hendrick Goltzius as His Source of Inspiration', in: E. Buijsen, Ch. Dumas, V. Manuth (ed.), Face Book. Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries. Liber Amicorum presented to Rudolf E.O. Ekkart on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, Leiden 2012, p. 93-98

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Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : Denmark
Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs kunstnerleksikon online (J.P. Munk 1994)
this artist in the British Museum
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Creation date: 1992-01-19; Last modified date: 2023-03-27

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