Willem van Nieulandt II

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Willem van Nieulandt II
Willem van Nieulandt in Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet.
Born
Willem van Nieulandt

1584
Antwerp
Died1635 (aged 50–51)
Amsterdam
NationalityFlemish
Known forPainting, poetry, stage plays
MovementBaroque

Willem or Guiliam van Nieulandt, sometimes Nieuwelandt[1] (1582/84–1635) was a Flemish painter, engraver, poet and playwright from Antwerp. He is known for his Italianate landscape paintings and prints, often of views of the areas around Rome with contemporary figures and biblical or mythological scenes. He was recognised for his Dutch-language poetry and stage plays.[2]

Biography[edit]

He was born in Antwerp in 1582 or 1584 as the son of Adriaen van Nieulandt the elder (died 1603) and Geertruyd Loyson (died ca. 1627).[2] His father was a merchant dealing in quills as was his grandfather who was also admitted as a master of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp in 1573.[3] His family included a number of artists including his uncle Guilliam or Willem van Nieulandt (I) who was a painter and draftsperson.[4] His younger brother Adriaen van Nieulandt the younger (born in 1586 in Antwerp) became a decorative painter of interiors, print artist, art dealer, appraiser, painter and draftsperson and was mainly active in Amsterdam..[5] The van Nielandt family moved to Amsterdam in 1589, after the Fall of Antwerp, probably because they were Protestants. Another brother called Jacob van Nieulandt was born in 1593/94 in Amsterdam where he became an art dealer, painter, innkeeper and draftsperson.[6]

View of the Forum Romanum.

Willem became in 1599 a pupil of Roelant Savery, another Flemish émigré living in Amsterdam known for his landscapes, still lifes and animal paintings. In 1601 he travelled to Rome, where he worked from 1601 to 1603 in the workshop of his uncle Guilliam van Nieulandt I and later in the workshop of Paul Bril, a prominent Flemish landscape painter. In the years 1602 and 1603 he lived with his uncle Guilliam van Nieulandt I in the Via Paulina, now Via del Babuino.[2] According to Arnold Houbraken, he specialized in Rome in painting artistic ruins of monuments, arches, and temples, many of which he then engraved himself.[7] In 1604 he was admitted as a master painter in the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp as the son of a master.[8] On 11 February 1606 the 22-year-old Willem married in Amsterdam Anna Hustaert (or Huystaert) who was a native of Antwerp.[3] The couple settled in Antwerp. On 13 April 1606 he became a citizen of Antwerp. His son Adriaen was born in 1607.[2] On 26 February 1611 his daughter Constancia or Constantia was baptized in the church which is now Antwerp Cathedral.[8] She later married the still life painter Adriaen van Utrecht and was a well regarded poet and still life painter.[9]

Landscape in Italy

At some point after May 1629 he returned to Amsterdam were he published a tragedy in 1635. He executed a will on 24 October 1635 while he was sick in bed in his home in Amsterdam. He signed the will with ' Giu. v. Nieulandt'. Shortly thereafter he died.[2]

Literary oeuvre[edit]

Nieulandt was better known as a poet and playwright than as a painter.[10][11] He was a member of the Antwerp chamber of rhetoric the Olyftack (Olive Branch) from 1613 to 1621, transferring to the rival Violieren from 1621 to 1629.[12]

In May 1620 he won the prize for best poem at a rhetoric competition in Mechelen, writing under the pen name Dient uwen Al (Serve your All).[13] In May 1624 the Violieren produced his play Aegyptica (a tragedy on the theme of Anthony and Cleopatra).[14]

Literary works[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Title page of Nieulandt's tragedy Sophonisba Aphricana, 1639
  • Poëma van den Mensch (1621)

Drama[edit]

  • Livia (1617)
  • Saul (1617)
  • Claudius Domitius Nero (1618)
  • Aegyptica (1624)
  • Sophonisba Aphricana (1626, 1635)
  • Salomon (1628)
  • Jerusalems Verwoestingh door Nabuchodonosor (1635)

Public collections[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ As his recurrent signature on paintings was ' G. v. Nieulant' it can be deduced that the correct form of his name is probably Guilliam van Nieulant. He signed his will with ' Giu. v. Nieulandt'
  2. ^ a b c d e Guilliam van Nieulandt (II) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  3. ^ a b Bredius, Abraham [Ed], Künstlerinventare: Urkunden zur Geschichte der holländischen Kunst des XVIten, XVIIten und XVIIIten Jahrhunderts (Band 1), The Hage, 1915, pp. 177, 183-185 (in German)
  4. ^ Guilliam van Nieulandt (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  5. ^ Adriaen van Nieulandt at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  6. ^ Jacob van Nieulandt at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  7. ^ Guiliam Nieulandt biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken (in Dutch)
  8. ^ a b Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde Volume 1, Antwerp, 1864, p. 425, 430, 506
  9. ^ Constancia van Utrecht at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  10. ^ Max Rooses, "Guillaume van Nieuwelandt", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15 (Brussels, 1899), 718–722
  11. ^ A.A. Keersmaekers, De dichter Guilliam van Nieuwelandt en de Senecaans-Classieke Tragedie in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (Ghent, 1957).
  12. ^ A. Keersmaekers, "Nieuwelandt, Guilliam van", Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1966), 629-632
  13. ^ Jan Thieullier, ed., De schadt-kiste der philosophen ende poeten (Mechelen, Henry Jaye, 1621), p. LXX
  14. ^ A. A. Keersmaekers, Geschiedenis van de Antwerpse rederijkerskamers in de jaren 1585–1635 (Aalst, 1952), p. 56.

External links[edit]

  • Media related to Willem van Nieulandt (II) at Wikimedia Commons
  • Baldinucci, Filippo (1728). Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali (or Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610-1670). Stamperia S.A.R. per li Tartini, e Franchi (Googlebooks entry for Guglielmo de Nicolant). p. 120.
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