A minor Dutch artist whom Gerson did not mention is the engraver Frans Allen (-after 1685) [i], who, so the Thieme/Becker informs us, was of Dutch origin and lived in Danzig for fully 40 years. But Gerson also made no index card for the important court architect Tilman van Gameren (1632-1706) [i], who worked in Poland from 1660 to his death, though he did mention other architects.
lower center : Qüam cernis non est pictüra, sed ümbra FREDERI:/Cordata mentis indoles, et ardüis/Süfficiens rebüs facündia, nescia pingi,/Coelo est dicata, et Patriae praeconijs./V.F.S.G.
In a note to a publication of 1979, James Welu mentioned in passing that the Amsterdam still-life painter Jan Vonck (1631-c. 1663/64) was born in 1631 in Toruń and that this and other archival facts had been communicated to him by S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, who had found the evidence in the City Archives of Amsterdam [i].4 This news situates Elias Vonck (c. 1605-1652), Jan’s father, in Poland during the 1630s. A daughter of his was baptized in Amsterdam in 1639, meaning he was definitely back in his native city by then. This information was taken over without much ado in the art-historical literature after 1979. Gerson had already observed on the basis of visual evidence that some paintings by Daniel Schultz (c. 1615-1683) were somehow related to works by Elias (and/or Jan) Vonck,5 but the knowledge that Elias Vonck was active at a time that Schultz could already have been an apprentice, asks for closer comparison of their works.
Pałubicki 2009, vol. 2, pp. 131 and 464.
Van der Veen 2001 and Lammertse/Van der Veen 2007.
Boers 2012, p. 56-61 and passim. On Rombout Uylenburgh, see Erik Löffler’s article below.
Welu 1979, p. 123, n. 2. The archival piece concerns the registration of the church marriage of Jan Vonck and Trijntje Jans: ‘Compareerden als vooren Joännes Fonc van Turen in-/ polen schilder out 22 jaer geen ouders hebbende woon[en]de in den Cle[?].straet ende Trijntje Jans van/ A[msterdam] out 22 jaer geass[isteer]d met Jan Jansen Crijpskerk [Grijpskerk?]/ haer vader woon[en]de op de Rosengraft […]’. Below are his signature, ‘J. Vonck’, and an ‘x’ for Trijntje (transcription Fred Meijer, RKD).
See § 6.3: Daniel Schultz and Andreas Stech.
He was registered at the University of Leiden in 1643 (Steinborn 2004, p. 221).
Thieme/Becker1908-1953, vol. 33 (1939), p. 383. This volume of the lexicon had not yet come out when Gerson completed his research in 1938.