Saturday, October 30, 2021

Jan Philip van Thielen (Flemish Flowers)

Jan Philip van Thielen
Garland of Flowers
before 1667
oil on panel
private collection

Jan Philip van Thielen
Flowers in a Glass Vase
ca. 1650-60
oil on panel
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan Philip van Thielen
Garland surrounding Cartouche
with a Bust of Flora

1665
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Philip van Thielen
Vase of Flowers
1660
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jan Philip van Thielen
Garland surrounding Portrait of a Girl
ca. 1645
oil on canvas
National Museum, Lublin, Poland

Jan Philip van Thielen
Garland surrounding Vignette
with Venus and Adonis

1653
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan Philip van Thielen
Garland surrounding Vignette
with Venus and Cupid

1648
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan Philip van Thielen
Vase of Flowers with Butterflies
ca. 1645
oil on panel
Honolulu Museum of Art

Jan Philip van Thielen
and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Garland surrounding Cartouche
with the Virgin and Child

1648
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jan Philip van Thielen
and Erasmus Quellinus the Younger
Garland surrounding Cartouche
with the Virgin and Child

1651
oil on copper
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Jan Philip van Thielen
Flowers in a Glass Vase
before 1667
oil on panel
Musée Magnin, Dijon

Jan Philip van Thielen
Flowers in a Glass Vase
ca. 1650-60
oil on panel
private collection

attributed to Jan Philip van Thielen
Vase of Flowers
before 1667
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

follower of Jan Philip van Thielen
Still Life with Flowers and Watch
ca. 1660
oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

"The son of the nobleman Librecht van Thielen, Lord of Couwenberg, and Anna Rigouldts, Jan Philip van Thielen was baptized in the Church of San Rombaut in Mechelen on 1 April 1618.  . . .  In 1631/32 the register of the Antwerp Saint Luke's Guild describes Van Thielen as a pupil of his future brother-in-law, the history painter Theodoor Rombouts.  Van Thielen's career as a flower painter seems to have begun when Daniel Seghers accepted him as a student, which must have occurred shortly before he [Van Thielen] became a master in Saint Luke's Guild in 1641/42.  Van Thielen's depictions of bouquets, garlands, and festoons consistently resemble those of Seghers.  Also like Seghers, the younger artist regularly collaborated with other Antwerp painters, typically creating garlands to surround their vignettes or cartouches."   

– from the biographical sketch at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC