Thursday, March 22, 2018

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger (Pupil of Paul Bril)

attributed to Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Landscape with Roman ruins and the meeting of Rebecca and Eliezer
ca. 1604-1620
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Italian Landscape
ca. 1604-1635
ink drawing with watercolor
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
 Landscape with a Murder
before 1635
etching from a set of Italian landscapes after Paul Bril
Philadelphia Museum of Art

"Willem van Nieulandt the Younger (1584-1635) appears in Karel van Mander's Schilderboeck of 1604 as a pupil of Paul Bril's in Rome, 'And for a year he had as his pupil Guilliaem van Nieuwlandt, of Antwerp, 22 years of age, presently living in Amsterdam, who took on his master's manner very naturally.'  When he was 4 years old Willem moved with his parents to Amsterdam, where he was apprenticed to Jacob Savery in 1599.  . . .  In 1602, at the age of 18, Willem van Nieulandt was living in the Via Paolina in Rome with his uncle of the same name.  The elder Van Nieulandt, an artist born in Antwerp in 1560, had arrived in Rome on 22 October 1597 and was to live there until his death on 31 March 1626.  There are no known surviving works by this artist.  . . .  The younger Van Nieulandt's earliest dated drawings are from 1603, almost all topographical views of Rome.  . . .  Like his drawings, the artist's paintings and prints have not been subjected to serious study.  Willem produced more than 114 prints.  Most of them state that they were published in Antwerp, where he was working between 1605 and 1629.  Four prints of views of Rome were made after drawings by Matthijs Bril, although his name is not mentioned on them.  There is also a series of prints on which Paul Bril is credited as the inventor, but the majority of the drawings that served as the designs for them were by Willem van Nieulandt, not Bril.  . . .  Some time after 25 August 1629 Willem returned to Amsterdam, where he died at the end of 1635."

– Peter Schatborn, from the catalogue of a 2001 exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, published in English as Drawn to Warmth: 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, translated by Lynne Richards

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Landscape with Christ walking on the water
before 1635
etching from a set of Italian landscapes after Paul Bril
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Family by a Mill
before 1635
etching from a set of Italian landscapes after Paul Bril
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Landscape with Pan and Syrinx
ca. 1604
etching after a landscape painting by Paul Bril
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
View of Rome with the Colosseum
before 1635
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Roman Ruin
ca. 1604-1618
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, Rome
 before 1635
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Temple of Vesta, Rome
ca. 1604-1618
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Two Ruins, Rome
ca. 1604-1618
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
 Ruined Aqueduct, Rome
ca. 1604-1618
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
Roman ruins on a coast
1618
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
View of Rome
before 1635
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York