Artus Quellinus III - Statuette of King Charles II wearing the robes of the Order of the Garter

Artus Quellinus III, known in England as Arnold QuellinArtus Quellinus III
at the

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(1653 – December 1686) was a Flemish sculptor who after training in Antwerp was mainly active in London. Here he worked in partnership with the English sculptor

Grinling Gibbons Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London church ...

on some commissions. Some of the works created during their partnership cannot with certainty be attributed to Quellinus or Gibbons.Rolf Loeber, ''Arnold Quellin's and Grinling Gibbons's Monuments for Anglo-Irish Patrons''
in: Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Vol. 72, No. 285 (Spring, 1983), Messenger Publications, pp. 84–101 The drop in quality of the large-scale figurative works in the workshop of Gibbons following the early death of Quellinus has been seen as evidence of the heavy reliance on Quellinus to produce such works.

Life

He was born in

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, the son of

Artus Quellinus II Artus Quellinus II or Artus Quellinus the Younger (alternative first name: Arnold; variation on family name: Quellijn, Quellyn, Quellien, Quellin, Quellinius) (between 10 and 20 November 1625 – 22 November 1700) was a Southern Netherlands, F ...

and Anna Maria Gabron. His father was a sculptor who played an important role in the evolution of Northern-European sculpture from High

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to Late Baroque. His mother was the sister of the painter Willem Gabron.Matthias Depoorter, ''Artus Quellinus II''
at: Baroque in the Southern Netherlands His brothers were the sculptor Thomas Quellinus and the painter Cornelis Quellinus.Oxford Reference
/ref> He trained in his father's workshop in Antwerp. He married Frances Siberechts, the youngest daughter of the Antwerp landscape painter

Jan Siberechts Jan Siberechts (1627–1703) was a Flemish landscape painter who after a successful career in Antwerp, emigrated in the latter part of his life to England. In his early works, he developed a personal style of landscape painting, with an emphasis ...

. Siberechts had emigrated some time between 1672 and 1674 to London where he joined the already sizeable colony of Flemish artists. It was probably Siberechts who encouraged Quellinus III and his wife to move there as well. Quellinus is documented in England from 1679 when the architect

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certified that he was to work at

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He worked from 1680 in partnership with the English carver and sculptor

, joining fellow Flemish artists Antoon Verhuke,

John Nost John Nost ( Dutch: Jan van Nost) (died 1729) was a Flemish sculptor who worked in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Life Originally from Mechelen in what is now Belgium, he moved to England in the second half of the 17th cent ...

Peter van Dievoet Peter van Dievoet (; Dutch language, Dutch: ''Peeter van Dievoet'', French language, French: ''Pierre van Dievoet'', Latin: ''Petrus''; 16611729) was a Flemish Baroque sculptor, statuary, wood carver and designer of ornamental architectural elem ...

and Laurens van der Meulen."Gibbons, Grinling", in: ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', vol. 22, pp. 29–30 : "''The attribution of these works is complicated by the presence of the highly trained Flemish sculptors whom Gibbons had gathered into his workshop by the end of the 1670s. These included Arnold Quellin (the nephew of Artus Quellinus I), John Nost, and Anthony Verhuke, joined in the next decade by, among others, Laurent Vander Meulen and Pierre Van Dievoet. Their experience and skill as makers of statues may have exceeded his own''". Quellinus III and Gibbons collaborated on the altarpiece for the Roman Catholic chapel in

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(1685–86). After his early death, his widow married his studio assistant

Works

*Monument to Thomas Thynne in

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(1684) *Roman Catholic Chapel at Whitehall with

, removed in 1694 and relocated at

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in 1696 but moved again to Westminster Abbey in 1706 and moved again in 1826 to Burnham Church in

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*Statue of

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for the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers at Royal Exchange *Statue of King

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at Royal Exchange *Statue of Charles II for the

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now at Guildhall (1683) *Statue of Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet for the

(1683) *Garden statues and ornaments for Carlton House, County Kildare

References

Bibliography

* ''Artus Quellinus III..'' In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker in ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart.'' Band 27, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1933 *

Margaret Whinney Margaret Dickens Whinney (4 February 1897 – 1975) was a British art historian who taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her published works included books on British sculpture and architecture. Life Whinney was the daughter of Thomas Bos ...

, ''Sculpture in Britain 1530–1830'', 1964, pp. 40, 52, 54–57, 59, 63, 93, v128.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Quellinus, Artus 3 Artists from Antwerp Flemish Baroque sculptors 17th-century Flemish sculptors 1653 births 1686 deaths