Adriaen van der Cabel

Adriaen van der Cabel or Ary van der Touw (1631 - June 16, 1705), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter active in France and Italy.

Biography

He was born and grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, near The Hague. Cabel was also known as Ary. According to Houbraken, he was a student of Jan van Goyen, and his real name was van der Touw (English: "of String"), but that wasn't grand enough according to Van Goyen, so he changed it to mean "of Cable".[1] Houbraken wrote that his brother Engel was also a painter, and that Adriaen was already living in Lyon when Johannes Glauber made his grand tour. Cabel moved to Lyon as a young man and spent the rest of his life there.

According to the RKD, he is registered in Rome in the years 1655-1658, after which period he moved to Lyons.[2] His bentname was Geestigheid.[2] His work is sometimes confused with that of his brother Engel van der Cabel (1641-after 1695), also known as Ange or Angelo. Engel accompanied his brother on his travels and they both married on the same day.[2] Like his brother, Engel became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Corydon, and he moved with him to Lyons, where in the year 1672, he became a 'Maître-Garde' of the Guild of Saint Luke there.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ary vander Kabel biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ a b c Adriaen van der Kabel in the RKD
  3. ^ Engel van der Kabel in the RKD

External links

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.