Willem van Bemmel

Willem van Bemmel by Christoph Wilhelm Bock (1755-1836)
Italianate landscape, 1667

Willem van Bemmel, or Guillaume, or Wilhelm von Bemmel (10 June 1630 – 20 December 1708), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter who moved to Germany.

He was born in Utrecht, where he was a student of Herman Saftleven.[1] He made a Grand Tour to Rome, spending first the years 1647-9 in Venice before moving to Rome where he stayed for six years and became a member of the Bentvueghels.[1] From Rome he crossed the Alps to Nuremberg.[1] He died in Nuremberg, aged 78.

According to the RKD he was the younger brother of the landscape painter Jacob Gerritsz van Bemmel (1628-1673) in Utrecht, and they both studied under Saftleven in the years 1645-1647.[2] He travelled to Italy, spending first the years 1647-9 in Venice, 1649-1653 in Rome (with trips to Naples), and then spending some time in London before moving to Kassel during the period 1656-1662.[2] In 1662 he moved to Augsburg for a short period before moving to Nuremberg, where he married and settled. The Nuremberg engraver Christoph Wilhelm Bock made a portrait of him there. He is known for his Italianate landscapes.[2] He was the father of the German Von Bemmel painting family of Nuremberg.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 (in Dutch) Willem van Bemmel Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 3 4 Willem van Bemmel in the RKD
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