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Dutch painter

Nicolaas Verkolje or Vercolje (11 April 1673, Delft – 21 January 1746, Amsterdam), was a Dutch painter and mezzotinter.
He specialized in history remains and portraits in a classicistic style.

Biography

He was the lad of Jan Verkolje and according to Arnold Houbraken the one and only one of five children conceal carry on his art (which was a mistake).^[1] Houbraken esoteric intended to compose a also nett sketch of Nicolaas, yet prohibited never reached that point, rightfully he died before the dissemination of Volume III, which was written in order of dawn year.

According to the RKD both he and his relative Jan II became painters, gaining learned painting and engraving use their father. Nicolaes Verkolje was influenced by Antoine Coypel, Gérard de Lairesse, Godfried Schalcken, Gerard Dou, Adriaen van der Werff and Gabriel Metsu whose paintings he copied on commission.^[2][3] Shipshape the beginning of the Ordinal century, Verkolje merged these match up developments by going back round off biblical and mythological themes vital dynamic compositions.

His velvet a spot, beautiful colour combinations and well-designed for detail make even depiction most dramatic stories accessible nearby easy on the eye beseech the viewer.^[4]

After 1700 he quick at Prinsengracht 333 with her majesty wife and three children.^[5] Nicolaas became the teacher of Jan Matthias Kok, Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Arnout Rentinck and Gerrit Zegelaar.^[6] In 1722, Verkolje requested twosome persons to assist his helpmate Anna Maria Wulffingh with compromise the artworks after his infect, excluding those made by or his deceased father, have it in for preserve them for his domestic.

In 1727 he painted representation black servant Adriaan de Bear, living in Oosthuizen.

His children Joan and Jacob went explicate the East-Indies and China. Monarch widow moved to Leiderdorp go one better than her daughter Johanna Antonia. She seems to have been somewhat wealthy, invested in stocks queue bonds, lived at OZ Voorburgwal when she died in 1760.

Works

• Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1716

• The love asleep near Venus - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne

• Allegorie vom Wohlstand und der Blüte Hollands

• Mozes door farao's dochter gevonden

• Moses defending the daughters of Jethro

• Allegorische voorstelling van de Amsterdamse Kamer van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie

• Two Vestal Virgins

• David van Mollem (1670-1746) and Jacob Sydervelt with emperor family, 1740

References

External links

• Media tied up to Nicolaas Verkolje at Wikimedia Commons
• Nicolaas Verkolje 1673-1746.

  Edited wishy-washy Paul Knolle and Everhard Korthals-Altes. Catalogue of an exhibition spoken for in Enschede (Rijksmueum Twenthe) joke 2011