Adam Frans van der Meulen

Adam Frans van der Meulen ( baptized January 11, 1632 in Brussels, † October 15th 1690 in Paris) was a Flemish battles, genre and landscape painter.

Life and work

The exact date of birth of the artist is unknown, the Baptism, however, is occupied by January 11, 1632. Van der Meulen studied with the highly regarded during his lifetime by the aristocracy court painter Pieter Snayers know the battle painting and became his student. On May 18, 1648 van was registered in the Guild of St. Luke der Meulen.

From 1664 the artist in Paris is detectable, where he became, on the advice of Charles Lebrun appointed court painter to King Louis XIV. 1681 he married his third wife a kinswoman of his patron Lebrun, Marie de By. In the same year was van der Meulen conseiller 1686 then premier conseiller the Paris Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.

Was Adam Frans van der Meulen before moving to Paris even a term coined by Pieter Snayers battle painter he was. In the service of the French king to the portrayer of those sieges and campaigns in which he took part in its wake He participated in nine trips where he went either directly or after the scenes of the event and recorded graphically.

Van der Meulen also produced numerous paintings of French castles, festive elevators and hunts. Frequently appearing on this kleinfigürlichen compositions, the figures of Louis XIV and the Queen, but also other figures show partly Portrait trains. Van der Meulen provided further designs for tapestries and assisted Lebrun even with such. However, the extensive tasks could not be met without a large and well-organized value instead. For his own paintings, he employed himself numerous pupils, such as Jan van Huchtenburgh. Also to his disciples and imitators among the French battles and landscape painter Jean -Baptiste Martin.

Works (excerpt)

  • Riders meeting between Imperial and Sweden, 1654th oil on canvas, Museum of Military History, Vienna.
  • The bearing of Tournai, 1667. Oil on canvas, National Gallery, Schleißheim.
  • The capture of Lille, 1667. Oil on canvas, National Gallery, Schleißheim.
  • The conquest of Dole, 1668th oil on canvas, National Gallery, Schleißheim.
  • June 12, 1672 crossing of the Rhine Louis XIV Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Louis XIV. For the conquest of Besançon, 1674, oil on canvas, Hermitage Museum
  • The deployment before Dinant, 1675th oil on canvas, National Gallery, Schleißheim.
  • The camp before Cambrai, 1677th oil on canvas, National Gallery, Schleißheim.
  • The conquest of Besançon, 1690th oil on canvas, Museum of Time Besançon
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