Jacob Gillig
Illustration — Freshwater Fish (1684) Jacob Gillig (also spelled Jakob or Gellig; ca. 1636 – 24 July 1701) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish. Although he produced several portraits, it is for painting fish that he is best known.
Also recorded as Jakob Gellig · Jakob Gillig · Jacob Gellig · J. Gills
Jacob Gillig
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- Born
- 1636 · Utrecht.
- Died
- 1701 · Utrecht.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- still life
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Freshwater Fish (1684) Jacob Gillig (also spelled Jakob or Gellig; ca. 1636 – 24 July 1701) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish. Although he produced several portraits, it is for painting fish that he is best known.
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Gillig was born and died in Utrecht. He apparently did not begin painting until his twenties, never registered as a master with the Utrecht Guild of Painters, and worked a merchant and then as a prison warden. In Utrecht the city prison was next to the fish market. He married a daughter of Abraham Willaerts in 1661. According to Houbraken, he tried his hand at portrait painting, but his likenesses were not very like his subjects. His works, as in the example to the right, favored pyramidal compositions. These were much respected in Utrecht at the time, and several of his works were copied by Abraham Mignon.
The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Utrecht. Work by Jacob Gillig is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Centraal Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
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1636
Jacob Gillig born at Utrecht.
1701
Jacob Gillig died at Utrecht.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Jakob Gellig, Jakob Gillig, Jacob Gellig, J. Gills and J. His recorded language was Dutch. One child is recorded: Michiel Gillig.
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Centraal Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
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