Philips Angel (bapt. 14 September 1616 - (after?) October 1683) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
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There has been some confusion about the identity of this painter, since he seems to have had a rather sober professional career, despite being ambitious enough to travel far from his native Middelburg. Angel was active as a still-life painter in Haarlem, where he entered the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1639 and paid dues until 1649.[1] He returned to Middelburg at least in 1652.
Philips Angel's life and works are often mixed with his cousin, the contemporary painter of the same name (now labelled Philips Angel II by the RKD), born in 1618 in Leiden, who was active as a painter in Leiden from 1637 to 1645, then sailed to Batavia, Dutch East Indies where he died in 1664 or 1665. This cousin Philips Angel II held a speech at a banquet for the Leiden Guild of Saint Luke in 1641 and later published a pamphlet on the art of painting in 1642 in Leiden based on the speech, in which he praises the work of Gerard Dou.[2] He then signed a document three years later saying he stopped all activities as a painter (probably to relieve himself of paying dues to the guild) in 1645 and joined the Dutch East India Company.[3] This second Philips Angel was drawing teacher of Abbas II of Persia in Isfahan between 1651 and 1656. There are no known paintings by Philips Angel II in the RKD databases.
This article incorporates text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.