Discover painter, draftsperson, trader Joachim Wtewael

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: Uytewael, Joachim
Uyttewael, Joachim
Wt de Wael, Joachhim
Wtenwael, Joachim
Wtewael, Joachim Antonisz.
Wttewael, Joachim
Wttewaal, Joachim Tonisz.
The 'Nederland's Adelsboek' [Dutch Peerage] spells the name as Wttewael; cf Muller 1880, p. 95

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, trader, government employee
he dealt in flax; van Mander 1604 regretted this very much, as it kept him from painting

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Utrecht (city) 1566

Deceased: Utrecht (city) 1638-08-01

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Anthoni Jansz Wtewael (died 1600) and Anthonia van Schayck (died 1593); grandson of Joachim Adriaenss. (van Schuyk); married to Christina van Halen (1568-1629) daughter of a shoemaker, father of Peter Wtewael (1596-1660), Johan (1598-1652) and Antonetta Wtewael (1603-1655)

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169 hits in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
640 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
3 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Utrecht (stad)
Padua 1586 - 1588
Saint-Malo (Bretagne) 1588 - 1590
c. 1588-1590
Fontainebleau 1590
went to other places in France, possibly also to Fontainebleau
Utrecht (stad) 1590 - 1638-08-01
1592 master in the guild (Muller 1880); in 1596 he bought Oudegracht (nowadays no. 58), where they were still living in 1621 and probably later, although Joachim owned several houses on this canal. In 1602 he and his brother Johan were among the first shareholders of the VOC (for 900 guilders each). In 1610 he became a member of the city council after a coup against the reigning faction of Prince Maurits: three months later he was ousted again; in 1618 he, his brother and Paulus Moreelse became members for life on appointment of prince Maurits; in the 1620's he held several posts in church organizations, mostly reserved for the higher echelons; in 1632, after the death of his brother Johan as burgomaster, Joachim became city councilor again by appointment of prince Frederik Hendrik; as his health was steadily deteriorating he reseigned, giving his appointment with princely consent to his son Peter (Luijten et al. 1993)

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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.: Beer, Joos de
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.: Beer, Cornelius de
Bochoven, Andries van
Keyser, Hendrick de (V)
Keyser, Hendrik de (I)
Proeijs, Melchior Beerntsz.
Wtewael, Johan
Wtewael, Peter
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Meesters van het Van Eeghen Tekenboek

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.: history (genre), portrait, Christian religious scene, still life

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Utrecht)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Mander 1604 , fol. 296v
Baldinucci 1681-1728/1725-1730/1974-1975 , vol. 3, p. 621-622
Muller 1880 , p. 14, 19, 63, 95, 98, 101, 119, 126
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 730-731
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 610
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim (as: Uytewael, J.A.)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 36 (1947), p. 285-286
Lowenthal 1975
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 326, 717 (text M.J. Bok)
Lowenthal 1986
Luijten et al. 1993
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , p. 392-393
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 55 (2000), p. 3-5
Van Ruyven-Zeman 2011 , p. 154 e.v.
Kwak 2014 , passim

K.G. Boon, 'Een tekening verband houdende met Wtewael's Jozef en zijn broeders', Kunsthistorische mededelingen van het Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie 3 (1948), no. 2, p. 18-19
A.W. Lowenthal, 'Wtewael's Moses and Dutch Mannerism', Studies in the History of Art 6 (1974), p. 124-141
E. McGrath, 'A Netherlandish History by Joachim Wtewael', Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 38 (1975), p. 182-217
S. Helliesen, '"The Judgment of Paris" by Joachim Wtewael at Oslo', Master Drawings 15 (1977), p. 16-21
S. Helliesen, 'Thronus Justitiae. A series of pictures of Justice by Joachim Wtewael', Oud Holland 91 (1977), p. 232-266
Ch.J.A. Wansink, review of Lowenthal 1986, Oud Holland 103 (1989), p. 174-180
A.W. Lowenthal, 'Wtewael's Netherlandish History reconsidered', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987) (liber amicorum prof.dr. E.K.J. Reznicek), p. 215-225 (about the chronology of Wtewael's drawings)
A.W. Lowenthal, 'The Golden Age by Joachim Wtewael at The Metropolitan Museum of Art', Apollo, February 1997, p. 49-52
W. Liedtke, '"The Golden Age" by Joachim Wtewael', Metropolitan Museum Journal 40 (2005), p. 93-104
A.W. Lowenthal, 'Joachim/Peter Wtewael, father/son, master/pupil', in: A. Golahny et al., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 279-286
E. Spaans, 'Joachim Wtewael. Op zijn religieuze en mythologische voorstellingen is niet zelden sprake van onverholen erotiek', Museumtijdschrift (2015), no. 2, p. 16-23 [concerning the exhibition in Utrecht/Washington/Houston]
L.W. Nichols, review of the exhibition in Utrecht/Washington/Houston, The Burlington Magazine 157 (2015), no. 1358, p. 501-502

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Creation date: 1992-02-07; Last modified date: 2023-05-17

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