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Jan-Baptist Huysmans or Jean Baptiste Huysmans (French pronunciation: [ʒanbatist ɥijsmã]; 25 April 1826 in Antwerp – May 1906 in Hove, Belgium), was a Belgian painter known for his Orientalist scenes. He led a peripatetic life style and travelled and worked in many countries.
Life
Jan Baptist Huysmans was born in Antwerp. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten) in Antwerp from 1843 to 1849. Starting from 1856, he travelled widely and visited Greece, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Algeria. He was clearly fascinated and sensitive to the intricacies of local costume, accessory, and custom as is shown in his sketchbooks, studies, paintings and written accounts of these travels.
He spent 30 years in Paris before returning to live in his native city of Antwerp. He settled later with his wife Maria-Catherina in Hove, Belgium where he died in 1906.
He exhibited in Antwerp in 1853, at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Manchester Art Gallery from 1863 to 1891, and at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris in 1889 for the Exposition Universelle.
Work
Huysmans is now mainly known for his Orientalist compositions. During his lifetime he also produced vast religious compositions for churches in Jerusalem as well as decorative panels in the church and municipal buildings of the Belgian cities Gheel and Comines.
Huysmans' Orientalist paintings were clearly influenced by Orientalism's greatest master Gérôme. He may also have been influenced by the popular British Orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis (1804–1876), whose "domesticated" Middle Eastern genre scenes were internationally praised. His Orientalist paintings represent simple, everyday scenes with strong colouring and well-observed details of costumes and objects.
He published his memoirs in illustrated works entitled Voyages en Italie et en Orient en 1856-1857. Notes et Impressions 1857 ('Travels in Italy and the Orient. Notes and Impressions 1857') in 1857 and Voyage illustré en Espagne & en Algérie, 1862 ('Illustrated travels in Spain and Algeria, 1862') in 1865.
Gallery
Selected works
See also
List of Orientalist artists
Orientalism
References
External links
Media related to Jan-Baptist Huysmans at Wikimedia Commons
Jan Baptist Huysmans (born 1654 in Antwerp; died 1716 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp who is known for his Italianate and arcadian landscapes and architectural capricci.
Life
Jan Baptist Huysmans was born in Antwerp as the son of Hendrick Huysmans and Catharina van der Meyden. He was baptized in Antwerp Cathedral on 7 October 1654. Jan Baptist was the brother of Cornelis, a prominent landscape painter. His brother Cornelis was possibly his teacher. He possibly also studied for a while with the marine painter Hendrik van Minderhout. He was registered as a pupil at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1675/76 and he became a master in 1676/77.
He possibly influenced Cornelis' son Pieter Balthasar. In 1697-98 he had a registered pupil by the name of Peeter Geeraerts.
He died in Antwerp.
Work
Jan Baptist Huysman was a landscape artist. His work has often been confused with those of his elder brother Cornelis who painted the same subject matter. A work entitled Landscape with animals (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium), which is signed and dated to 1697, and another one entitled Landscape with Ruins (Shipley Art Gallery), which is signed and dated to 1694, have allowed more of his oeuvre to be distinguished from that of his brother.
Like his brother Cornelis he painted imaginary Italianate landscapes. His works are often a fusion of the style of North European wooded landscape painting with the Italian inspired vista. In his landscapes with ruins Huysmans also shows his indebtedness to the type of architectural landscape painting first popularised by Claude Lorraine in Rome and by Nicolas Poussin. These landscapes often depict a glimpse of a pastoral idyll although they may sometimes include elements such as ruins and a tomb, which remind the viewer of the closeness of death.
Jan Baptist Huysmans also painted architectural capricci, i.e. architectural fantasies, which place together buildings, archaeological ruins and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations and may also include staffage (figures). An example is A ruined classical archway (National Trust, Dinton, Wiltshire), which shows ruins of a triumphal arch and the statue of the Borghese Gladiator. In the right foreground are also depicted satyrs and nymphs who are festooning an Egypto-Roman stone lion.
As was common practice at the time, he collaborated with specialist painters in Antwerp such as the history and figure painter Jan Erasmus Quellinus. Jan Baptist Huysmans would typically provide the landscape elements in these collaborative works. Examples of collaborations with Quellinus are the Mercury turns the jealous Aglaulus into stone in the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (c. 1700) and the composition A ruined classical archway mentioned in the previous paragraph.
References
External links
Media related to Jan Baptist Huysmans at Wikimedia Commons
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