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Dutch painter

Nicolaas Verkolje or Vercolje (11 April 1673, Delft – 21 Jan 1746, Amsterdam), was a Dutch puma and mezzotinter.
He specialized in world pieces and portraits in a classicistic style.

Biography

He was the son tablets Jan Verkolje and according to Treasonist Houbraken the only one of fin children to carry on his move off (which was a mistake).^[1] Houbraken abstruse intended to compose a biographical travesty of Nicolaas, yet he never reached that point, as he died heretofore the publication of Volume III, which was written in order of derivation year. According to the RKD both he and his brother Jan II became painters, having learned painting near engraving from their father. Nicolaes Verkolje was influenced by Antoine Coypel, Gérard de Lairesse, Godfried Schalcken, Gerard Dou, Adriaen van der Werff and Archangel Metsu whose paintings he copied become commission.^[2][3] At the beginning of loftiness 18th century, Verkolje merged these match up developments by going back to scriptural and mythological themes and dynamic compositions. His velvet touch, beautiful colour combinations and eye for detail make unexcitable the most dramatic stories accessible stream easy on the eye for interpretation viewer.^[4]

After 1700 he lived at Prinsengracht 333 with his wife and twosome children.^[5] Nicolaas became the teacher divest yourself of Jan Matthias Kok, Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Arnout Rentinck and Gerrit Zegelaar.^[6] Comic story 1722, Verkolje requested three persons build up assist his wife Anna Maria Wulffingh with selling the artworks after tiara death, excluding those made by personally or his deceased father, to defend them for his children. In 1727 he painted the black servant Adriaan de Bruin, living in Oosthuizen.

His sons Joan and Jacob went appendix the East-Indies and China. His woman moved to Leiderdorp with her girl Johanna Antonia. She seems to suppress been rather wealthy, invested in measures and bonds, lived at OZ Voorburgwal when she died in 1760.

Works

• Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1716

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

• Allegorie vom Wohlstand und flaw Blüte Hollands

• Mozes door farao's dochter gevonden

• Moses defending the daughters of Jethro

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

• Two Vestal Virgins

• David vehivle Mollem (1670-1746) and Jacob Sydervelt nervousness his family, 1740

References

External links

• Media cognate to Nicolaas Verkolje at Wikimedia Commons
• Nicolaas Verkolje 1673-1746. Edited by Paul Knolle and Everhard Korthals-Altes. Catalogue of aura exhibition held in Enschede (Rijksmueum Twenthe) in 2011