Thursday, August 19, 2021

Jan van den Hoecke (Follower of Rubens)

Jan van den Hoecke
Communion of the Blessed Frederick of Regensburg
ca. 1630-50
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Allegory on Archduke Leopold Wilhelm
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan van den Hoecke
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm
in Prayer before the Virgin and Child

ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan van den Hoecke
The Judgment of Midas
ca. 1640
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan van den Hoecke
Delphic Sibyl
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Libyan Sibyl
ca. 1630-40
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Allegory of Time and Truth victorious over Envy and Falsehood
ca. 1630-50
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Allegory of Time and the Elements
ca. 1636-40
oil on canvas
(tapestry cartoon)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan van den Hoecke and Paul de Vos
Amor Vincit Omnia
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

attributed to Jan van den Hoecke
Portrait of a Woman
ca. 1630-50
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Portrait of Emperor Ferdinand III
ca. 1643
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan van den Hoecke
Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria
ca. 1634-35
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan van den Hoecke
The Road to Calvary
ca. 1630-50
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van den Hoecke
Dido and Aeneas
ca. 1630-35
oil on canvas
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Jan van den Hoecke
Hero and Leander
ca. 1635-37
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

"Jan van den Hoecke was born in Antwerp in 1611.  After a stint as an apprentice to his father, the painter Gaspar van den Hoecke, he entered the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens in 1630.  Van den Hoecke was greatly influenced stylistically by the baroque master, as is evidenced by the fact that many of his works were once attributed to Rubens.  The young artist next traveled to Italy, where he would remain until 1644.  There he familiarized himself with the work of Guido Reni and undertook the traditional study of exemplars from antiquity.  After relocating to Vienna he entered the service of Emperor Ferdinand III.  Ultimately, in 1647, he returned to his native Antwerp, where he became court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm.  Throughout Van den Hoecke's career, he remained indebted to the florid manner of Rubens, while at the same time cultivating elements of seventeenth-century Italian classicism."

– adapted from a biographical sketch published by Galerie Lowet de Wotrenge, Antwerp