George Geldorp

Georg Geldorp (* in Cologne, † 1665 in London) was a portrait painter of the Golden Age and an art dealer. Born in Germany with Flemish origin in the age of the baroque, he practiced his profession as an artist of the Dutch school in Antwerp and London.

Life and work

The son of the painter Gortzius Geldorp was trained in his father's workshop and from 1610 to 1623, conducted as a master in the Liggeren, the painters' guild of Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke book.

Geldorp went in 1623 to England, where he, 1st Duke of Newcastle, contacts with the local nobility was about an acquaintance with the Duke of Newcastle, William Cavendish, who then his new clients were. In the time of the Stuart Restoration, he supervised, according to Horace Walpole, the royal painting, a post which brought a role as a political negotiator for Charles II with him.

In 1637, Peter Paul Rubens was with him in letter Contact and Geldorp ordered him for the Cologne banker Eberhard Jabach a crucifixion portrait. From 1649 Geldorp made ​​for Oliver Cromwell at several paintings and was still active in 1662 for Charles II as a restorer. One of Geldorps student was Isaac Sailmaker, he in 1653 and 1657 commissioned to produce several Navy images.

Georg Geldorp was married several times, including with a daughter of the painter William de Vos. In his first large house in Drury Lane, the making of the Company and Anthony van Dyck and Peter Lely wrong also lived for a time in this house.

Style and reception

According to Joachim von Sandrart Georg Geldorp was not a good draftsman. His works consisted of the copies in the form of tracing of other works, notably Van Dyck. Arnold Houbraken disapproved of this approach, preferring rather to write about other painters. After moving to England, he painted in an Anglo- Dutch style. His full-length portraits of the second Earl of Salisbury, William Cecil and his wife still hang in both the Hatfield House as well as in the National Portrait Gallery of the Earl of Totnes in London.

Works (selection)

  • Elizabeth Basset (1617-1643)
  • 1626 William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Catherine in Hatfield House, in Hertfordshire
  • 1638/39 Sir Arthur Ingram
  • George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), Half-length Portrait Gallery in London, attribution frgl.
  • Portrait of an Unknown, Vienna Painting Gallery, the attribution of questionable
  • James Stewart, Duke of Lenox, bez. Geo.Geldorp pinx Robert van Vorst created an engraving after this painting.
  • Henry IV of Johann Gelle razor ( 1580 to etwa1625 ).
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