Cornelius Ploos van Amstel (Netherlands, 1726-1798)
after Allart Van Everdingen (Netherlands, 1621-1675)
‘The Village’, c. 1782
crayon-manner
(image) 8 13/16” high x 10 7/8” wide
(framed) 14 9/16” high x 19 7/16” wide
Markings: signed in print lower left, ‘AVE’; signed and dated verso with crayon-manner Ploos van Amstel ‘Coat of Arms over inscribed ‘… Everdingen del. Ploos van Amstel J. C. Fecit.
Condition: Excellent Condition, Framed and Ready for Display.
For Accuracy: the margins have been trimmed as was common in the past, the image remains unaffected and the inscription complete.
PLOOS van AMSTEL, Cornelius (Netherlands, 1726-1798). Printmaker; Art Collector. A wood merchant and collector of old master drawings in Amsterdam, he devised new methods of making facsimiles of drawings (including the crayon-method), and published 46 in 21 sets between 1765-1787, each with 350 impressions, called ‘Ectypa.’ The technique was considered secret and thus he worked extremely closely with the studio assistant artists including Bernard Schreuder, Elisabeth van Woensel, Cornelis Buys, Cornelius Brouwer and his printers Jacob Ploos van Amstel (his brother) and Johannes Kornlein (son-in-law of his wifes, Elisabeth Troost’s father, the painter and actor Cornelis Troost). A member of the Amsterdam artist society Arte et Amicitia (De Kunstkrans) the Ploos van Amstel collection is said to have contained over 5,000 original drawings, many by Rembrandt. Active within the art sphere he attended lectures at Athanaeum Illustre of Amsterdam and wrote the original report of the lectures of Petrus Camper on the facial angle while contributing to the illustration of a new atlas of Amsterdam. His students, often taught by his sister-in-law Sara Troost, included their cousin Christina Chalon; William V, Prince of Orange; Elisabeth van Woensel; and Hermanus Petrus Schouten.
EVERDINGEN, Allaert van (Netherlands, 1621-1675). Dutch Golden Age Painter and Printer. Taught, along with his brothers artists Jan and Caesar van Everingen, by Roelandt Savery and Pieter de Molijn; he is considered a precursor of Jacob Ruysdael in landscape composition. He is represented in : Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam); Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands); National Gallery (London); Courtauld Institute of Art (London); The Wallace Collection (London); Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge; The Louvre (Paris); Musée des beaux-arts ( Rouen); Université de Liège Collections; Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna); National Museum (Warsaw); Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg); National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA.
