Pieter Janssens Elinga
Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623–1682) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mainly of domestic interior scenes with a strong emphasis on the rectangular geometrical elements of windows, floor tiling paintings and other elements, and a few genre paintings. He also painted still lifes, and created perspective boxes, which he became known for.
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Pieter Janssens Elinga
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- Name
- Pieter Janssens Elinga
- Born
- 1623
- Birthplace
- Bruges
- Died
- 1682
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic.
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- Baroque.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Pieter Janssens Elinga (1623–1682) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mainly of domestic interior scenes with a strong emphasis on the rectangular geometrical elements of windows, floor tiling paintings and other elements, and a few genre paintings. He also painted still lifes, and created perspective boxes, which he became known for.
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Pieter de Hooch is recorded as an influence. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bruges, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Work by Pieter Janssens Elinga is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museum Bredius, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Hallwyl Museum and Hermitage Museum.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Pieter Janssens Elinga • Birth Name — Pieter Janssens Elinga • Born — 1623 • Birthplace — Bruges • Died — 1682 • Place of death — Amsterdam • Field — Painting • Movement — Baroque • Illustration — Interior with painter, reading lady and maid recurring, 1668, Städelsches Kunstinstitut
Biography
Biography
He was born in Bruges as the son of Gisbrecht Janssens, who probably taught him to paint. When he moved to Rotterdam in 1653, he changed his name to Elinga. He moved to Amsterdam in 1657, where he probably died. He is last registered alive in 1657, when he paid a poll tax in Amsterdam. His widow is registered there in a notarized document as a widow in 1682. Elinga was a follower of Pieter de Hooch and Willem Kalf.
Career and activity
Career and activity
Pieter Janssens Elinga worked in painting. His work is associated with Baroque. He worked at Bruges, Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1623
Pieter Janssens Elinga born at Bruges.
1682
Pieter Janssens Elinga died at Amsterdam.
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Bruges.
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Amsterdam.
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Legacy
He is best known today for his perspective box, one of only 6 known to be still intact. It is on show at the Museum Bredius in The Hague. Perspective boxes were experiments with light, architectural elements, and the camera obscura. Samuel van Hoogstraten also made one, which is on show at the National Gallery. Given the size and contorted perspective, the small painting View of Delft by Carel Fabritius has been considered to have originally been part of a perspective box.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2002348: Pieter Janssens Elinga
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- “Pieter Janssens Elinga”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- De schilder Pieter Janssens Elinga, Oud Holland - Quarterly for Dutch Art History, 1909
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1909
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