Discover painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors) Jan van Bijlert

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Aeneas
Bijlert, Jan Harmensz. van
Bijlert, Jan Hermansz. van
Bilardo, Giovanni
Biler, Jan van
Bylaert, Jan van
Bylert, Jan van
Bylaart, Joan
Aeneas was his bent-name.

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors), dealer in art supplies

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Utrecht (city) 1597/1598
c. 1597-1598: at the occasion of his marriage in 1625 in Amsterdam he declared to be '27 jaer out'. According to Hoogewerff 1952 he was born in 1603.

Deceased: Utrecht (city) 1671-11/1671-11-13
He was buried in the Nicolaaskerk in Utrecht on 13 November 1671 (Saur 1995).

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the Utrecht glass painter Herman Beernts van Bijlert; married 1) Margrita Kemings in Amsterdam on 30 May 1625; 2) Cecilia van Velthoven in 1660

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183 hits in RKDimages as artist
10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
349 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
3 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1624 - 1671
earliest dated painting 'Saint Sebastian assisted by Saint Irene' from 1624 in Rohrau, Graf Harrach'sche Familiensammlung

Active in

Utrecht (stad)
as apprentice of Abraham Bloemaert
Parijs 1614 - 1616
stayed here two years
Aix-en-Provence
stayed here for half a year
Rome 1620 - 1624
According to Hoogewerff 1959 he arrived in Rome in March 1621 with his colleagues Jan Gerritsz. van Bronckhorst and Cornelis van Poelenburch; recorded in Rome 1621 as Giovanni Bilardo, living in Strada Margutta; 1623 he was co-founder of the Schildersbent, together with Cornelis van Poelenburch and Willem Molijn (Saur 1995)
Amsterdam (stad) 1625
married Margriete Kemings in 1625
Utrecht (stad) 1625 - 1671
became a member of the Utrecht militia in 1625; 1630 member of the Reformed Church; 1634 member of the brotherhood of the Sint Jobsgasthuis, of which he was a caretaker 1642-1643

born in

active in

died in

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.: Bijlert, Herman Beerntsz. van
Bloemaert, Abraham
presumably pupil of his father until the latter's death in 1616, later on pupil of Bloemaert (Saur 1995)
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.: Fouchier, Bartram de
Jongh, Ludolf de
Wijtmans, Mattheus
Willaerts, Abraham
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Honthorst, Gerard van
Baburen, Dirck van

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.: allegory, genre, history (genre), portrait, Christian religious scene, fruit piece
A fruit still life with a large roemer and the rind of a fruit, is mentioned in a lottery organized by Jan de Bont at Wijk-bij-Duurstede in 1649 (Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 37)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Art movement Here we mention the art movement to which an artist belonged. Many art movements have not yet been entered, because the content of this field is still under development.: Caravaggisti

Member of

Bentvueghels
Sint-Lucasgilde (Utrecht)
He became a member of Saint Luke's Guild in 1630, according to Saur 1995 already as early as 1626; active as dean from 1632 till 1637 (Saur 1995); In 1639 the painters separated themselves from the sculptors and a new guild was erected: the "Schilders-College". Van Bijlert became alternately between 1654/55 and 1667-1670 it's dean and it's 'overman' (head-man) (Huys Janssen 1998, p. 46-50).

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 10 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Meyssens 1649 , n.p.
De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 117-118 (portrait by Bailliu)
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 235, 338; vol. 2 (1719), p. 33, vol. 3 (1721), p. 380 (as: Joan/Jan Bylert/ Bylaert/ Bylaart)
Immerzeel 1842-1843 , vol. 1 (1842), p. 119 (as: Bijlert, Jan)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1855), p. 1707 (as: Joan Bylert)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 228-229 (as: Jan van Bylert)
Muller 1880
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 5 (1911), p. 315 (as: Bylert, Jan van)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 45, 145, 146, 152, 457
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 18
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 4 [1951], p. 81 (as: Jan van Bylert (Biler))
Hoogewerff 1952 , p. 46-47, 126, 132
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 47 (as: Bijlert or Bylert, Jan Harmensz., van)
Nicolson 1979 , vol. 1, p. 69-73
Haak 1984 , p. 315-316
Blankert/Slatkes 1986 , p. 194-207
Saur 1992- , vol. 10 (1995), p. 636ff.
Huys Janssen 1994 , passim
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , p. 374-375
Blankert 1999 , p. 112 (J. Giltaij, 'Jan van Bijlert' [biographical part])
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 37 (as: (wrongly) died on 13-11-1671)
Weller et al. 1998 , p. 77-80
Strinati/Zuccari/Bagnoni 2010 , vol. 2, p. 324-333
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

S. Muller Fz., De Utrechtsche archieven. I., Schildersvereenigingen te Utrecht, Utrecht 1880
H.N.J. van Eelde, 'De schilder Jan van Bijlert, verkooper van verf', Oud-Holland 15 (1897), p. 128
G.J. Hoogewerff, `Jan Gerritsz. en Jan Jansz. van Bronchorst, schilders van Utrecht', Oud-Holland 74 (1959), p. 139-160
G.J. Hoogewerff, 'Jan van Bijlert, schilder van Utrecht (1598-1671)', Oud Holland 80 (1965), p. 3-33
Peter C. Sutton, 'A Pair by Van Bijlert', Mercury (1989), no. 8, p. 4-16
P. Huys Jansen, 'Een nieuw boek over Jan van Bijlert', RKD bulletin 1997, no. 13-18

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Archive location: archief Godefridus Johannes Hoogewerff
Project: Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : Italy
Dutch Artists in Rome

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-11-25; Last modified date: 2023-02-15

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