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Edward Collier active 1662–1708 - Tate: Evert Collier (26 January – few days before 8 September ) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter known for vanitas and trompe-l'œil paintings. His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier".

Evert Collier

Dutch painter

For the English copy illegally, see Edward Collier (pirate).

Evert Collier (26 January – few days before 8 September ) was a Dutch Golden Agestill-lifepainter famous for vanitas and trompe-l'œil paintings.

His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier".

Life

Collier was baptized Evert Calier in Breda, North Brabant.^[1] He was trained in Haarlem, where his earliest paintings show the influence of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne, who became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St.

Luke in , and whose son Laurens van der Vinne listed "Evert Colier" in as one of the Haarlem guild members who had known his father.^[2] Van der Vinne was probably his teacher when Collier registered with the Haarlem guild in ^[3] They both later influenced the Haarlem still-life painter Barend van Eisen.^[1]

By , Collier had moved to Leiden, where he became a member of the Leiden Guild of St.

Luke in He moved to Amsterdam by and to London in He returned to Leiden in the years –, based on signed and dated works there, but was back in London at the end of his life where he was buried September 8, at St. James's, Piccadilly.^[4]

The Denver Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and the Tate (London) are among the public collections having paintings by Evert Collier.

The US historian, Dror Wahrman, has written a book on Collier's trompe-l'œil works, Mr.

Little is established about Collier. He signed himself 'Edwaert Colyer' in his Dutch works but later anglicised his name to Edward Collier. He was born in Breda but the year of his birth is not known. Maarten Wurfbain in Turner, p.

Collier's Letter Racks (OUP, ). The novel brings together a wide range of the painter's still lifes from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, mostly from the time when Collier was living in London. Their themes were almost exclusively arrangements of journals, engravings, letters, medals, combs, sealing wax sticks and other ephemera, signifying an updating of the older memento mori still life model.

Works

His works attend to be an arrangement of pieces of paper painted to "pop out" of the surface in a trompe-l'œil fashion. Enjoy Van der Vinne before him, he often included prints, but these tended to be well-liked prints of the day.

An oil on canvas painting (Vanitas Still Life with Globe, Skull and Violin) previously attributed to Collier was later attributed to Pieter Legouch.^[5]

A trompe-l'œil still animation of a letter rack, 54 x &#;cm, includes a reproduce after Staverenus
Smell, c.

, by Petrus Staverenus

A Trompe-l'œil of Newspapers, Letters and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board (), × &#;cm
Edward Collier (), Oil on Canvas, × &#;cm
Still Life (), Oil on Canvas, × &#;cm
Still Life: The Smell (), Oil on Canvas, 24 5/8 × 20 1/2 in
Still Life: Parliament (), Oil on Canvas, 24 1/2 x 29 3/4 in, M.S.

Rau Antiques, New Orleans
Still Life with a volume of Wither's Emblemes (), Oil on Canvas, × &#;cm
A Vanitas
Vanitas (), Oil on Wood, 94 × &#;cm
Vanitas Still Life (), Oil on Canvas, 99 × &#;cm
Self Portrait with Vanitas Still Life (), Oil on Canvas, Honolulu Museum of Art

Notes

^ ^a^bEdwaert Collier in the RKD
^De archiefbescheiden van het St.

Lukasgilde te Haarlem , Hessel Miedema, , ISBN&#;
^Though Collier is listed in the Haarlem guild register as a member on a page headed "", the last two digits must have been switched and he probably became a member in (a year suspiciously lacking member registrations), like other members listed with him and mistakenly registered on that page, such as Evert Oudendijck and Egbert van Heemskerck.
^According to Paul Taylor, Londen, July
^"toegeschreven aan Pieter Legouch".
His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier". Luke inand whose son Laurens van der Vinne listed "Evert Colier" in as one of the Haarlem guild members who had known his father. Luke in He moved to Amsterdam by and to London in
RKD. Retrieved October 29,

Attribution:

&#;This article&#;incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:&#;Bryan, Michael (). "Coleyer, Evert". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.).

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K).
For those of you who have been following my blog over the years, you will know of my love of Flemish and Dutch art. My other artistic love is paintings with symbolism and so in the blog today, I wish to introduce you to a lesser known Dutch painter many of whose paintings were awash with a myriad of symbolic objects. Edwaert Colyer, a Dutch painter possibly of English descent, who later anglicised his entitle to Edward Collier was born in Breda in January and baptised Evert Calier. He trained in Haarlem and eventually became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St.
Vol.&#;I (3rd&#;ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

References

Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch only)
Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart / unter Mitwirkung von Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes; hrsg.

von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker (–)
Adriaan van der Willigen en Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, –, Leiden