Discover painter, draftsperson, appraiser Matthias Withoos

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: Calzetti, M.
Withoos, Mathias
Withoos, Matthijs
Calzetta Bianca

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, appraiser, regent (official), councillor, court painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amersfoort (place) 1621/1627
ca. 1621-1627; 50 years old in 1671, according to the painters register of Jan Sysmus (Bredius 1890-1895); reported in 1651 as being 26 years old (Hoogewerff 1942); Houbraken 1719 mentions 1627 as his birth year; Boersma/Kolk 2021: c. 1627, acording to Houbraken

Deceased: Hoorn (place, North Holland) 1703
Houbraken 1718-1721

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the innkeeper Jan Jansz. Withoos (died 1650) and Lutmantgen Jacobsdr. Freer. Married (no place, no date) Weijntje (Wendelina) van Hoorn (died ca. 1679) before 1653; father of Adriana (born c. 1653/4), Pieter (1654/55-1692), Johannes (1656-1687/88), Aleid/Alida (1662-1730), Geertruyt (baptized 12 March 1661), Maria (c. 1663-after 1699) and Frans Withoos (1657-c. 1705)

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4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
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Amersfoort (plaats) 1647
master in the guild in 1647; together with Jacob van Campen and Paulus Bor appraised the Arundel Collection in Amersfoort in 1655 (Weijtens 1971); member of the city council 1665-1672 (Obreen 1877-1890); Weesmeester and regent of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekapel 1670-1672 (Heijenga-Klomp 2005)
Parijs 1648
traveled with Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Hendrick Graauw, Paulus Bor II, Lodewijk van Velsen and probably Joannes Ruytenbeeck from Paris to Florence and Rome (Hoogewerff 1952; Saur 2022). Houbraken states that Withoos and De Graauw were travel companions and that De Graauw travelled by ship to Livorno (Houbraken 1719, p. 190). It is suggested that the rest of the group left later than 1647/8 but in 1650.
Lyon
probably visited Lyon on his way to or from Italy, or both (see RKDimages 4439)
Florence
Rome 1651 - 1652
1651 reported at the Via del Babuino; 1652 reported at the Strada Vittoria (Hoogewerff 1942); worked for Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici in Rome (Houbraken 1719), although there is no evidence to support this; possibly also in Florence (Thieme/Becker 1947)
Amersfoort (plaats) 1653-02 - 1672
documented in Amersfoort by 22 February 1653 (Thieme/Becker 1947)
Hoorn (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1672 - 1703
Moved to Hoorn with his family and apprentice Gaspar van Wittel to escape the French occupation (Houbraken 1719, Saur 2022); later Withoos regularly traveled back to Amersfoort to settle an inheritance.

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Connections with other artists

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.: Campen, Jacob van
trained with Van Campen for 6 years (Houbraken 1719)
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.: Staverden, Jacob van
Vries, Seger de
Withoos, Alida
Withoos, Frans
Withoos, Johannes
Withoos, Maria
Withoos, Pieter
Wittel, Caspar van

possibly the teacher of Seger de Vries (Heijenga-Klomp 2005)
Follower of: Marseus van Schrieck, Otto
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Porpora, Paolo
Vries, Seger de
Withoos, Hans

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.: italianate, cityscape, still life, landscape (genre), flower piece, forest still life, game piece (still life), vanitas (still life), portrait, fish piece
hunting still lifes in Bourg-en-Bresse and Paris and a signed and dated 1667 hunting still life in a sale of Le Raincy on 29 January 1995; a hunting still life in a landscape auctioned at Christie's on 5 June 1936; his early still lifes with plants show kinship with Marseus van Schrieck; by the time he moved to Hoorn he had developed a mature varied style of Italianizing landscapes at sunset with a colourful background to park-like environments with still lifes of plants in the foreground; Withoos developed his own variation on the vanitas still life by placing symbols of transience in an Italian park environment; a fish still life in Hoorn (Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003).

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Amersfoort)
Bentvueghels
Bent-name: Calzetta Bianca

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 4 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 186-189
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 6, p. 299, 305-307
Bredius 1890-1895 , p. 303
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 893 (as: Matthias Withoos, genannt Calzetti)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 36 (1947), p. 116-117 (as: Withoos, Matthias (in Italien gen. Calzetta Bianca))
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 651
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 165, 178
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 39, 126
Hoogewerff 1952 , p. 139, 146
Weijtens 1971 , p. 7, 31 (erroneously named as Adriaan Withoos on p. 7, however the accompanying endnote and the quote on p. 31 identify him as Matthias Withoos)
Bol 1973 , p. 310-311
Witt Checklist 1995 , p. 545 (as: Withoos, Matthias (Calzetta Bianca))
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 222 (as: Mathias Withoos [...] al. Calzetta Bianco)
Bocchi/Bocchi 2004 , p. 49-65 (as Matthias Withoos detto Calzetta biancha)
Boersma/Kolk 2021 , passim, esp. p. 12-23
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]
Saur 1992- , vol. 116 (2022), p. 508

M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, 'Matthias Withoos (ca. 1627-1703) en zijn kinderen. Een Amersfoortse schildersfamilie', Flehite. Historisch Jaarboek voor Amersfoort en omstreken (2005), p. 108-131

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Creation date: 1992-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-08-15

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