Edwaert collier biography for kids
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For those of you who have been following my blog over the years, you will know of my love of Flemish and Dutch art. Many of you would be able to conjure up names of some of the great Netherlandish artists such as the Flemish painters Pieter Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Memling, Quentin Massys, and David Teniers or the Dutch painters such as Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael, Jan Steen, Johannes Vermeer, van Gogh and Rembrandt, to mention just a few. My other artistic love is paintings with symbolism and so in the blog today, I want to introduce you to a lesser known Dutch painter many of whose paintings were awash with a myriad of symbolic objects.
My painter I am looking at today is the seventeenth century artist, Evert Collier, who is famous for his vanitas and trompe-l&#;œil still life works and today I will look at his vanitas paintings. Edwaert Colyer, a Dutch painter possibly of English descent, (who later anglicised his name to Edward Collier) was born in Breda in January and baptised Evert Calier. He trained in Haarlem and eventually became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.
One of the greatest influences on Collier was a fellow painter of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne. Initially van de Vinne trained as a weaver but then dec
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Vanitas Still Life
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Title:Vanitas Still Life
Artist:Edwaert Collier (Dutch, Breda expressions. ?–after Author or Leiden)
Date
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions x 44 1/8 strengthen. (94 x cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase,
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Edward Collier
Little is known about Collier. He signed himself 'Edwaert Colyer' in his Dutch works but later anglicised his name to Edward Collier. He was born in Breda but the year of his birth is not known. Maarten Wurfbain (in Turner, p) gives his date of birth as c Collier's earliest known work is dated He entered the St Luke's Guild at Leiden in , at which time he was also a member of the guild in Haarlem. Between and he was married at least three times in Leiden. Records indicate that he was living in Amsterdam in
Many of Collier's vanitas and trompe l'oeilpaintings include English texts and objects and seem to have been painted for the English market, a common practice among Dutch artists working in Holland. A number of paintings dated for the years bear inscriptions describing him as a 'Painter at London', indicating that he spent some time there. Lord Lothian was apparently a patron of this particular type of painting; at Newbattle Abbey there are examples of trompe l'oeil pictures by Collier and Roestraeten.
Although many authorities give his death as before , this probably stems from his confusion with an Evert Colier, who was dead by His last known painting is signed 'London '. Wurfbain (in Turner, p) gives as a possible date of death 1 February , based on