Discover painter, draftsperson, court painter Anthon Schoonjans

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Anthon Schoonjans

male / South Netherlandish

Name variations

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: Schoonjans, Anthoni
Schoonjans, Anthonie
Schoonjans, Antonie
Schoonjans, Antoon
Schoonans, Antoine
Squoniam, Antoine
Sconianz, Antonio
Schunianz, Antonio
Parrhasius
Parhasius
Parrhasius was his bent-name (Houbraken 1721).

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, court painter
court painter in Vienna, Berlin and Düsseldorf

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Ninove 1655-03/1655-03-05
baptized 5 March 1655 in Ninove as son of Joannes Schoonians (wine merchant) and Anna de Gruytere (http://www.sconejhan.be/antoonschoonjans.html, retrieved 5 April 2017)

Deceased: Vienna (city) 1726-08-12/1726-08-13
Levin 1911, p. 22 (12 August); 13 August according to family website

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Joannes Schoonians (wine merchant) and Anna de Gruytere in Nonove

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) 1668 - 1669
apprentice in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp between 18 September 1668 and 18 September 1669(Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)
Reims 1673-03 - 1673-05
On 24 July 1674, Willem van Ehrenberg (37) and Remacle Zerin (24) declare in front of a notary under solemn oath, that they saw Anton Schoonjans 16 monts earlier in Rheims, where he painted a Nativity and that they socialized with him while he was painting this canvas and that he was very well liked and honoured in the city. On 1 October 1674, two other young men confirm this statement for the same notary, adding that they saw that the painting was packed and sent off to Lille with a certain mr. Cocq from Antwerp (Duverger 1999 no. 3052).
Parijs
Rome 1674 - 1686
was a member of the Bentvueghels; in Rome he lived in 1684 on Strada Marghutta verso il Babuino, nº 54 together a Dutchman/Fleming Baldassar and Carel de Vogelaer (Hoogewerff 1942)
Lyon 1686
Bodart 1970, p. 203
Rome 1688 - 1689
lived in the Corso, near Via di Ripetta
Wenen (stad) 1693 - 1695
court painter of Emperor Leopold I (Börsch-Supan 1967, p. 3)
Frankfurt am Main 1696-04-10
with Jan Frans Douven (Levin 1911, p. 12)
Kassel (Hessen) 1696-04-15
with Jan Frans Douven (Levin 1911, p. 12)
Hamburg (stad) 1696-04-19
Levin 1911, p. 12
Kopenhagen 1696-04-26 - 1696
Wenen (stad)
Berlijn 1702 - 1703
court painter of Friedrich I of Prussia
Den Haag (stad) 1704
c. 1704
Londen (Engeland) 1704
painted decorations in the little Montague house (demolished in the 1840s)
Amsterdam (stad) 1706
Düsseldorf 1707 - 1716
court painter of Johann Wilhelm of the Palatine
Wenen (stad) 1716 - 1718
Brno 1718 - 1726
Wenen (stad) 1726 - 1726-08-12

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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.: Quellinus, Erasmus (II)
Quellinus, Jan Erasmus
between 18 September 1668 and 18 September 1669(Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)
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.: Gsell, Georg

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

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Bentvueghels

Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 103, 353 (as: Schoonjans, bent-named Parrhasius)
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 2, p. 385, 389
Levin 1905 , vol. 3, p. 22-25
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 6 (1862), p. 1484-1485
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 30 (1936), p. 256-257 (as: Schoonjans, Anthoni)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 23, 247, 359, 469
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 57, 59
Hoogewerff 1952 , p. 117, 143
Bodart 1970 , vol. 1, p. 202
Witt Checklist 1978
Gesche 1990 , p. 233, no. 197 (etching after a genre painting with Vestal virgins)
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 10 (1999), p. 9-10, no. 3052
Groenendijk 2008 , p. 675 (as: Schoonjans, Antoon (ook Anthoni)(Parrhasius ; Schoonyans))
Solinas 2010 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 102 (2019), p. 179
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

Th. Levin, ‘Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kunstbestrebungen in dem Hause Pfalz-Neuburg. III’, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Niederrheins 23 (1911), p. 1-185, esp. p. 11-25
Th. Faaborg, 'Schoonjans og Douven. Et bidrag til hofkunstens historie ved overgangen fra det syttende til det attende aarhundrede', Kunstmuseets Aarskrift 11-12 (1924-1925), p. 224-240
H. Börsch-Supan, 'Anton Schoonjans in Berlin', Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 21 (1967), p. 1-19
G. Heinz, 'Studien über Jan van den Hoecke und die Malerei der Niederländer in Wien', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorische Sammlungen in Wien. Neue Folge, 63 (1967), p. 109-164
J. van Tatenhove, 'Anton Schoonjans (1650/55-1726)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 23 (July 2001), p. 32-33

Preperation of dissertation by Walter Moens, Berlin: 'Anton Schoonjans (1655-1726), Ein Flämischer Hofmaler unterwegs in Mitteleuropa. Sein Leben und Werk zwischen Ehefrau, Auftraggebern und Konkurrenten' (KULeuven, supervisor Prof. Dr. Katlijne Van der Stighelen, co-supervisor Prof. Dr. Nils Büttner)

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External links: this artist in Ecartico
Schoonjans family website

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Creation date: 1992-01-25; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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