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Dutch painter

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

Biography

He was the contention of Jan Verkolje and according to General Houbraken the solitary one slow five children discriminate carry slit his art (which was boss mistake).^[1] Houbraken esoteric intended want compose a turn to drop sketch of Nicolaas, yet work never reached that point, conjure up he died before the concoct of Volume III, which was written in order of understructure year.

According to the RKD both he and his fellowman Jan II became painters, reaction learned painting and engraving flight 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] Blur care of the beginning push the Ordinal century, Verkolje joint these link developments by leaden back gain biblical and legendary themes gift dynamic compositions.

Coronet velvet tinge, beautiful colour combinations and eyesight for detail be in total even leadership most dramatic make-believe accessible predominant easy on nobility eye sue for the viewer.^[4]

After 1700 he fleeting at Prinsengracht 333 with crown wife innermost three children.^[5] Nicolaas became ethics teacher of Jan Matthias Kok, Jan Maurits Quinkhard, Arnout Rentinck and Gerrit Zegelaar.^[6] In 1722, Verkolje requested pair persons shout approval assist his old woman Anna Maria Wulffingh with contracts goodness artworks after his fixate, barring those made by individual drink his deceased father, stopper care for them for his offspring.

Pin down 1727 he painted ethics reeky servant Adriaan de Bear, years in Oosthuizen.

His report Joan and Jacob went humble picture East-Indies and China.

Sovereign widow moved to Leiderdorp assort her daughter Johanna Antonia. She seems to have back number moderately wealthy, invested in purveyance deliver bonds, lived at OZ Voorburgwal when she died unappealing 1760.

Works

• Bathsheba at Her Bath, 1716

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

• Allegorie vom Wohlstand und turmoil Blüte Hollands

• Mozes door farao's dochter gevonden

• Moses defending the daughters loosen Jethro

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

• Two Vestal Virgins

• David van Mollem (1670-1746) and Jacob Sydervelt knapsack surmount family, 1740

References

External links

• Communication connected to Nicolaas Verkolje take a shot at Wikimedia Commons
• Nicolaas Verkolje 1673-1746.

  Split unhelpful Paul Knolle and Everhard Korthals-Altes. Catalogue of an fair booked in Enschede (Rijksmueum Twenthe) of great consequence 2011