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Artus Quellinus III, known in England as Arnold QuellinArtus Quellinus III
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (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 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 this.
at: Baroque in the Southern Netherlands His brothers were the sculptor
Artus Quellinus III, known in England as Arnold QuellinArtus Quellinus IIIat the Netherlands Institute for Art History (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 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 this.
Life
He was born inAntwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
, 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, Sint-Truiden – 22 November 1700, Antwerp) was a ...
and Anna Maria Gabron. His father was a sculptor who played an important role in the evolution of Northern-European sculpture from High Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
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
Thomas Quellinus (March 1661 – September 1709), also known, especially in Denmark, as Thomas Qvellinus, was a Flemish baroque sculptor.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. 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 Hugh May certified that he was to work at Windsor Castle.
He worked from 1680 in partnership with the English carver and sculptor Grinling Gibbons, joining fellow Flemish artists Antoon Verhuke, John Nost, Peter van Dievoet 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 Whitehall Palace (1685–86). After his early death, his widow married his studio assistant John Nost.
/ref> He trained in his father's workshop in Antwerp. He married Frances Siberechts, the youngest daughter of the Antwerp landscape painter Jan Siberechts. 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 Hugh May certified that he was to work at Windsor Castle.
He worked from 1680 in partnership with the English carver and sculptor Grinling Gibbons, joining fellow Flemish artists Antoon Verhuke, John Nost, Peter van Dievoet 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 Whitehall Palace (1685–86). After his early death, his widow married his studio assistant John Nost.
Works
*Monument to Thomas Thynne in Westminster Abbey (1684) *Roman Catholic Chapel at Whitehall with Grinling Gibbons, removed in 1694 and relocated at Hampton Court in 1696 but moved again to Westminster Abbey in 1706 and moved again in 1826 toBurnham Burnham may refer to:
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England
*Burnham, Buckinghamshire
** Burnham railway station
** Burnham Grammar School
*Burnham Green, Hertfordshire, location of The White Horse
* Burnham, Lincolnshire
**High Burnham, ...
Church in Somerset
*Statue of King Henry VI
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for the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers at Royal Exchange
*Statue of King Edward IV
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for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers at Royal Exchange
*Statue of King Edward V for the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers at Royal Exchange
*Statue of King Henry VII
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Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort ...
for the Worshipful Company of Tallow Chandlers at Royal Exchange
*Statue of King Charles II for the Worshipful Company of Grocers at Royal Exchange
*Statue of Charles II for the Royal College of Physicians now at Guildhall (1683)
*Statue of Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet for the Royal College of Physicians now at Guildhall (1683)
*Statue of Sir John Cutler, 1st Baronet for the Worshipful Company of Grocers (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 an English 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 Bost ...
, ''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 1653 births 1686 deaths