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Lucas de Heere
Flemish painter
Lucas de Heere or Lucas d'Heere (Ghent, &#; possibly Paris, 29 August ) was a Flemishpainter, watercolorist, print artist, biographer, playwright, poet and writer.[1] His costume books and portraits are a valuable resource for knowledge about 16th-century fashion.
Life
The principal source for the life and work of de Heere is Het Schilder-Boeck written by his pupil Karel van Mander first published in in Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, where van Mander resided in the latter part of his life. Lucas de Heere was born in Ghent, the second son of Jan de Heere, a sculptor, and Anna Smijters, a miniaturist.
He was trained by his father. His brother Jan was apprenticed as a painter's apprentice to the local artist Gerard Hoorenbault.
Lucas de heere biography channel Art History. View all. The British Library. Unlock exclusive artist performance data.He also had four sisters.[2]
After the citizens of Ghent revolted against their ruler emperor Charles V, the city's privileges were abolished by the Carolinian Concession in As a result, the power of the guilds was broken and artistic activity came to a standstill. Against this background, Jan de Heere sent his son Lucas to Antwerp to study under the leading Flemish painter and draughtsman of his time, Frans Floris.
This was likely also the time when he started composing poetry.[3] Upon his return to Ghent likely around , he established a school of painting. One of his students was Karel van Mander. In , he and his father were commissioned by the Ghent magistrate with the decoration of St John's Church - now St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent - on the occasion of the reunion of the 23rd Chapter of the Golden Fleece.
Lucas de heere artist Lucas de Heere Flemish - Other studies of the middling sort have also expressed frustration, or at least resignation, about the fact that distinct expressions of self-identity are few and far between. This was likely also the time when he started composing poetry. In other projects.Lucas completed for this commission the painting King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in which Solomon is given the features of king Philip II of Spain. Around , he married Eleonore Carboniers.
After the Spanish Netherlands revolted against Philip II of Spain in because of his suppression of the followers of the Reformation movement, De Heere went to France, where he was reportedly employed by Catherine de' Medici to assist in the design of the Valois Tapestries.[4] He then traveled to England, where he became an elder of the Dutch stranger church at Austin Friars.
In , he was employed by Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln to paint a gallery and depict the clothing and costumes of various nations.[5] After the Pacification of Ghent in , he was able to return home, if only for a while. He was once again forced to leave the city in , when Ghent surrendered to Spanish Habsburg forces.[6]
He was very popular during his career and became immensely rich.
His portrait of Katheryn of Berain is held by the National Museum Cardiff. He painted a head of Philip II from the life in , as a letter of Cardinal Granvelle documents (Prado).[7]
In he painted by order of the chancellor Viglius van AyttaSolomon and the Queen of Sheba, which was commissioned for the choir of St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent before the celebration of the twenty-third chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, conserved in situ.
Lucas de heere biography channel 6 Against this background, Jan de Heere sent his son Lucas to Antwerp to study under the leading Flemish painter and draughtsman of his time, Frans Floris. Loading Comments The British Library. Get the best price for your artwork or collection.In England he trained other Flemish immigrants: John de Critz, probably Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, and possibly as well the English Robert Peake the Elder.
Some time between and he visited Stonehenge. His watercolor sketch (now in the British Library) is the earliest known realistic depiction of the site.[8]
Publications
While he was in exile, de Heere developed an interest in ethnography, history and geography.
This translated in his illustrated works such as Corte beschryvinghe van Engheland Schotland ende Irland (a description of England, Scotland and Ireland), the Corte beschryvinghe van D'engelandsche geschiedenissen (a description of the English history) and the Theatre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre (a manuscript displaying the different costumes people wore).
The latter book is a very rare manuscript. It holds a special value for the collective memory because it displays the perception of historical and contemporary costumes of the 16th century.
The manuscript has 98 paintings of Lucas de Heere and is preserved in the Ghent University Library.[9]
Other publications
- Beschrijvinghe van het ghene dat vertoocht wierdt ter incomste van dExcellentie des princen van Orangien binnen der stede van Ghendt [], S.l.: s.n., Google Books
- Pasquillus testament, ten zijn fablen noch droomen, deur den paus toegelaten ende ghedruct in Roomen, aen u Nederlants volck, ghesonden voor memorie, u over de Spaengiaerts wenschende eewige victorie, S.l.: s.n., Google Books
- Den hof ende boomgaert der poësien, Haarlem: David Wachtendonck, Google Books.
Gallery
- Selected works
Portrait of Philip II
From the Theatre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre.[9]
View of the city of Ghent in [10]
References
- ^Lucas de Heere at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
- ^W.
Waterschoot, Inleiding in Lucas de Heere, Den hof en boomgaerd der poësien (ed. W. Waterschoot). W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink, Zwolle , pp. IX to XXIX (in Dutch)
- ^T'leven van Lucas de Heere, Schilder en Poeet, van Ghent in Karel van Mander, Het Schilderboeck, (in Dutch)
- ^James, Ralph N., Painters and Their Works, L.U.
Gill, , p.
- ^"Gaudio, Michael.
Lucas de heere irish: Read Edit View history. Goldsmiths represent a particularly curious example of a group who spanned a range of middling experiences from the JAMS, or the just-about-managing, in modern parlance, to the highly influential and well-off and who produce a range of crafted outputs within their profession and, in this period, including a growing a number of artists. Email Required Name Required Website. In that year he subscribed at Ghent the protestant oath, and with his wife attended the public communion at Middelburg.
'Truth in Clothing: the Costume Studies of John white and Lucas de Heere' (European Visions: American Voices)"(PDF). British Museum.
- ^D'Heere, Lucas
- ^Museo del Prado, Catálogo de las pinturas, , pp. –3, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Madrid, ISBN&#;
- ^"Stonehenge, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland | British Library - Picturing Places".
The British Library. Retrieved 20 March
- ^ ab"Théâtre de tous les peuples et nations de la terre avec leurs habits et ornemens divers, tant anciens que modernes, diligemment depeints au naturel par Luc Dheere peintre et sculpteur Gantois[manuscript".
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Lucas de heere biography channel 7 Buy unsold paintings, prints and more for the best price. Read Edit View history. In August the iconoclastic outbreak took place, and most of the works of De Heere's father and probably his own perished either then or at the subsequent outbreak in De Heere certainly enjoyed the patronage of Philip II, but subsequently he adopted the reformed religion, and became a devoted follower of the Prince of Orange.Retrieved 25 August
- ^"Zicht op de stad Gent, de toestand voor weergevend, gemaakt voor de Proost van Sint-Baafs Viglius ab Aytta in Gemaakt voor 60 fl. door Lucas d'Heere; hersteld in door J.B. Herqueau. Zicht genomen van een plaats tussen de Dendermondse en de Antwerpse Poort". . Retrieved 5 October
Further reading
External links
Media related to Lucas de Heere at Wikimedia Commons