Discover painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter Caspar van Wittel

Name variations

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: Wietel, Jasper Adriaensz. van
Wittel, Caspar Adriaensz. van
Wittel, Gaspar Adriaensz. van
Wittel, Gaspar van
Gasparo degli Occhiali
Occhiali, Gasparo dagli
Vanvitelli, Gaspare
Vitelli, Gaspare van
Toorts
Pictoorts
De Toorts (Houbraken 1721) or Pictoorts was his bent-name (Houbraken 1719)

Monogram: GVW
GasVW

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter, print artist

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school), Italian

Born: Amersfoort (place) 1653
c. 1653. His tombstone in Rome states that he died at the age of 83 and came from Utrecht; according to the biography of his son Luigi he was born in July 1656.

Deceased: Rome 1736-09-13

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: married to Anna Laurentini in Rome in 1688; father of Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-1773)

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).

This person/entity in other databases

1 hit in RKDcollections
153 hits in RKDimages as artist
33 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
916 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Biographical information

Education: Accademia di San Luca (Rome)

Member since 1711-05-25 (Noack 1927)
Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Letteratura dei Virtuosi al Pantheon (Rome)

Member since 1686-05-12 (Noack 1927)

Active in

Amersfoort (plaats)
Hoorn (plaats, Noord-Holland) 1672 - 1673
Rome 1674 - 1685
in January 1675 certainly present in Rome (probably already in 1674); placed his signature on the wall of Santa Costanza in Rome in 1680 (Van der Schoor 1976)
Amersfoort (plaats) 1685
was probably back in Amersfoort in the winter of 1685 (Landsman 2019)
Rome 1685 - 1694
Via San Isidoro (Noack 1927)
Rome 1685 - 1694
Via Purificazione (Noack 1927)
Florence
traveled through Italy, c. 1694-1710
Bologna
Ferrara
Venetië
Milaan
Piacenza
Rome 1697
Napels 1699
Rome 1702
Via Sistina 50 (Noack 1927)
Rome 1711 - 1736
c. 1711-1736
Urbino 1718
c. 1718

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.: Veenendaal, Thomas Jansz. van
Withoos, Matthias
Student of Thomas van Veenendael 4 to 5 years (according to Heijenga-Klomp) and then Matthias Withoos ca. 7 years (ibid.) until the departure of Withoos from Amersfoort in 1672.
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.: Vanvitelli, Luigi
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.: Carlevaris, Luca
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Canaletto

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, landscape (genre), architecture (genre), cityscape

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 33 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 360; vol. 3 (1721), p. 103 (as: Kasper/Gasper van Wittel, bent-named de Toorts or Piktoors)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 36 (1947), p. 130-131 (as:Wittel, Gaspar (Adriaensz) van (Vanvitelli, Gaspare))
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2, p. 897
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 611
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 168, 173, 191
Van Gelder/Van Hasselt/Blankert 1966 , p. 74-75
Mandle et al. 1971 , p. 118-120
Witt Checklist 1978
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 54 (1999), p. 3-10
Briganti 1996
Harwood et al. 2002 , p. 204
Meijer/Sluiter/Squellati Brizio 2011 , cat.nos. 1047-1052
Bartoni 2012 , p. 363, 530-531
Morandotti 2015 , passim
Weststeijn 2017/2019 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]
Saur 1992- , vol. 116 (2022), p. 528-530

A.M. Hind, ‘Pseudo-Claude drawings’, The Burlington Magazine 48 (1926), p. 191-196
A.M. Hind, 'Caspar van Witel (1647-1736)', Master Drawings 1 (1926), p. 42, pl. 50
A.M. Hind, 'Pseudo-Claude Drawings and Gaspar van Wittel', The Burlington Magazine 53 (1928), p. 92-95
G. Briganti, 'Gaspar van Wittel (Vanvitelli), schilder van Amersfoort', Mededeelingen van het Nederlandsch Historisch Instituut te Rome 22 (1943), p. 119-133
W. Vitzthum, 'Gaspar van Wittel e l'origine della veduta settecentesca', The Burlington Magazine 109 (1967), p. 315-318 (review)
G. Briganti, 'Van Wittel e i rapporti conil "Vedutismo" veneziano', Rappresentazione artistica e rappresentazione scientifica nel "Secolo dei Lumi", Florence 1970, p. 333-344 (offprint)
H. van der Schoor, ' Bentvueghel signatures in Santa Costanza in Rome', Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, 38/3 (1976), p. 82
R.E.O. Ekkart, review of exh. cat. Ottawa 1977, Oud Holland 93 (1979), p. 67-68
M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, 'Caspar van Wittel. Zijn ouders en jeugdjaren', Flehite 21 (1991) nos 3/4, p. 42-49
M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, 'Jacob van Staverden en Caspar van Wittel. Twee schilders van Amersfoort te Rome', Flehite 21 (1991) nos. 3/4, p. 34-42
M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, 'Jasper van Wittel (ca. 1652-1736). Een Amersfoortse schilder in Italië', Jaarboek Flehite 2005, p. 132-147
L. Laureati, L. Trezzani, 'Van Wittel a Londra: un entusiasmo un po' troppo generoso', Giornale dell'Arte, September 2013
R. Landsman, 'Caspar van Wittel's family ties', Oud Holland 131, nos 3/4 (2018), p. 139-150

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Project: Gerson Digital : Italy
Dutch Artists in Rome

External links: this artist in Ecartico
Website Vrienden van Caspar van Wittel

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Creation date: 1992-02-07; Last modified date: 2023-03-17

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