Erasmus Quellinus II is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Erasmus Quellinus II as Flemish painter (1607-1678).
Erasmus Quellinus II was born at Antwerp in 1607. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, printmaker and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is flemish baroque painting.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Belgium shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Erasmus Quellinus II died in 1678, aged 71. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Flemish Baroque painting
