Adam de Colone, or Adam Louisz. de Colonia (c. 1572 in

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– buried 19 August 1651 in

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), was a

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painter active in Scotland during the reigns of

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and

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Biography

It has been assumed that Adam was the son of the King's Painter in Scotland, Adriaen van Sonne (Vanson) and his wife Susanna de Colonia. However, more recent research reveals, according to the

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, that Adam was the brother of Susanna de Colonia, and they were the children of an Antwerp saddle maker Louis Jansz Colonia. Adam painted under the name Adam de Colonia in

in the 1630s.Adam Louisz. de Colognia
in the

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Accordingly, Adrian Vanson, court painter to

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, was Adam's brother-in-law. Adrian was originally from the

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though all his children were born in

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.Adam de Colone
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Adam is presumed to have studied in the Low Countries, in 1598 he joined the guild in Dordrecht, and was presumably already active as a painter in 1593 in Rotterdam when he married. He was father of the painter

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(1611-1663) and grandfather of

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(1634-1685). He moved to London in 1622 and settled in Scotland in 1624. Working at the Court in Whitehall he painted at least two full-length portraits of James VI in 1623, and many of the Scottish nobility. He was paid for London portraits by James I in 1623. (It is unclear if Adam joined his sister in Edinburgh before 1620.) The earliest portrait of a Scottish sitter recognized as Adam's work is dated 1622, though his portrait of Sir

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(1567-1646) is dated 1613. Most of his works have painted inscriptions showing distinctively shaped letters and numerals. A record of payments in 1628 by

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for portraits is preserved;

Item gevine to Adame the painter for my Lord Errol, my Lady Hay, and James Maxwells portraits, 86 lib. 13b s. 4 d.
Item, gevine to Adame the painter for my aune portraitte gevine to my sister (Isobel Seton), 40 lib.J. Stuart, ed., ''HMC, 2nd Report'', 'Papers of Forbes Leith of Whitehaugh' (1874), p. 199: D. Thomson, ''Painting in Scotland, 1570-1650'', (Edinburgh 1975), 52, notes the pictures may have been painted in London.

The Copenhagen Museum displays a picture by him of 'Noah building the Ark'; and the Lille Museum has 'The Angel appearing to the Shepherds' attributed to him.

References

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