The Flemish school of painting .. by Wauters Alphonse Jules 1845-

Author:Wauters, Alphonse Jules, 1845- [from old catalog] & Rossell, Henry, Mrs, [from old catalog] tr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Painting, Flemish, Painters
Publisher: London, New York [etc.] Cassell & company, limited
Published: 1885-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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244 FLEMISH PAINTING. ^^^f^b^^lJ!

Among the painters who do honour to the Flemish school we must cite the Quellinus family, for it has

produced artists of the greatest merit. The grand compositions of Erasmus Quellinus are well ordered, but of indifferent colouring. In his best pieces —for instance, the "Repose in Egypt" (St. Saviour's Church, Ghent), and the "St. Roch" (St. James* Church, Antwerp)—he shows himself

worthy of the studio where his talent was developed.* In his turn he formed Wallerant Vaillant, a native of Lille (1623—1677), who has some stately portraits at Amsterdam and in the palace of Berlin.

His son John Erasmus has some great decorative scenes in the Museum of Antwerp, but in his time the school was already on the decline.

Abraham Van Diepenbeeck (1596—1675) tried

his skill in all the various styles which constitute grand painting. His allegorical portrait in ^Aj the Louvre (Fig. 60), the " Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine " (Museum of Berlin), the " Meeting between Abraham and Melchisedek " (Academy of Bruges), and the "Judgment of Solomon " (Liechtenstein Gallery) are skilful compositions and full of spirit; with a little more sentiment and originality they would have given the painter a foremost place among the followers of Rubens.

• G^nard: Les grandes families artistiques iVAnvcrs, Revue d''htS' toire et d^archiologie^ vol. ii., p. 310. i860.

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