Jan Porcellis
January Porcellis (* around 1582 in Ghent, † January 29, 1632 in Zoeterwoude ) was a Dutch- Flemish marine painter, draftsman and etcher.
There are different variations of his first name (John ) and surname (including Pour Celles, Parcellis, Percelles, Perselles ).
Life
His father, Captain January Pour Celles or Porcellis, was one of many refugees from persecution in the Spanish- occupied Netherlands, who settled in Rotterdam.
Porcellis 1605 detectable in Rotterdam, where he married this year. Maybe he worked in Rotterdam, first in book illustration for the publisher and engraver Jan van Doetechum, who published among other engravings of ships and cards and also relationships to London was where Porcellis is also detectable ( one of his daughters was born there before 1615). 1615 he moved to Antwerp after he had filed bankruptcy in Rotterdam. In 1617 he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke of Antwerp, but had further financial problems. In 1618, he was forced to enter into a contract in which he more than twenty weeks supply forty images, the material he and an assistant were asked. 1622 he moved to Haarlem in 1624 and moved to Amsterdam. In Haarlem he developed his own style as a marine painter, influenced by representatives of the tonal landscape painting as Jan van Goyen, Salomon van Ruysdael and Pieter de Molyn. Typical of Porcellis Navy images are a monochrome palette, the inclusion of the sky in the composition and playback of the interplay of sun light reflections and shadows of clouds.
The artist biographer Arnold Houbraken says he would be student of the famous marine painter Hendrick Cornelisz. Vroom in Haarlem been, but this is doubted today. Paintings from the 1610er years in the Royal Collection, which were once as the earliest images of Porcellis, Vroom attributed today.
1626 he lived in Voorburg, near The Hague. From about 1628 he lived in Zoeterwoude in Leiden, where he had extensive estates.
Porcellis was in his time as an innovative and leading Dutch marine painter. Among his pupils Simon de Vlieger, Willem van Diest, Hendrick van Anthonissen included ( at the same time his brother in law ), Hans Goderis and marine painter and art collector Jan van de Capelle, who had sixteen images of Porcellis in his collection. Also, Rembrandt paintings from him.
His son Julius Porcellis ( born in Rotterdam before 1610, died in Leiden in 1645 ) was also his pupil as a marine painter, who married a daughter of Jan Steen.
He signed jp or ip, dated his pictures but rarely. Approximately 50 paintings attributed to him, the earliest from the 1620s.
His paintings are among other things in the Rijksmuseum, the National Maritime Museum ( Greenwich), the Hermitage, the Mauritshuis (The Hague), the Alte Pinakothek (Munich ), Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux, Ashmolean Museum ( Oxford), Courtauld Institute ( London), Bredius Museum and Van der Heydt Museum ( Dusseldorf ), Royal Collection.
In 1627 he published under the title Icones Variarum Navium Hollandicarum quarum usus maxime in Aquis interioribus regionis a collection of different representations of ships with size constraints in loads in pressure.