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Theodoor Wilkens

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near Rome. A crowd then formed on the ramparts and watched them. The crowd's movement on the edge of the old medieval part of the town perched on a cliff caused a building to collapse. The crowd then concluded that they were practising witchcraft and they came storming out of the city. The artists
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He specialised in depictions of landscapes and architecture. No paintings by his hand have been preserved so that his work is known only through his drawings. He worked in an Italianate style that seems influenced by the Dutch landscape painters
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Back in Amsterdam Wilkens used his Italian sketches to make new drawings. His Italian landscapes date from the period of 1715 to 1744.
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were saved by a constable who brought them before the city governor who let them go after they had explained matters.
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Nothing is known about his apprenticeship. He travelled to Rome in 1710 or 1711. According to the early biographer
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His death date is uncertain, but his painting collection was auctioned in Amsterdam on 17 June 1748.
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and Johannes Glauber who both worked in Italy. The drawings of Wilkens also resemble some works of
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De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen
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18th-century painter and draughtsman from the Dutch Republic
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Dutch Republic
Arnold Houbraken
Bentvueghels
Hendrik Frans van Lint
Antwerp
Ronciglione
Albert Meijeringh
Caspar van Wittel



Biographical details



Theodoor Wilkens
RKD


Theodoor Wilkens in Bentvueghel poem
Arnold Houbraken
Digital library for Dutch literature


Wilkens and Lint in Ronciglione
Categories
1690 births

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