威廉·斯赫林克斯

1623 - 1678 Dutch

遊歷廣泛的荷蘭風景畫家

威廉·謝林克斯（Willem Schellinks）是一位荷蘭畫家、素描家和蝕刻師，擅長風景畫和海景畫，同時也是一位詩人。威廉·謝林克斯是當時遊歷最廣的荷蘭藝術家之一。1646年，他沿盧瓦爾河和塞納河旅行；1661年至1665年間，他訪問了英國、法國、義大利、馬爾他、德國和瑞士，並透過多幅風景畫和景觀圖以及一本日記記錄了他的旅程。其他拼寫方式包括Schellinger和Schellinx。 Willem Schellinks was born into a family of artists in Amsterdam. He was the son of a surveyor and the brother of Daniël Schellinks (1627–1701), who was active as an amateur artist. Another brother, Jacob, settled in Southampton, Connecticut Colony and took up whaling. After finishing his studies with Karel Dujardin at the age of about twenty, he traveled to France with Lambert Doomer in 1646. After that he undertook another journey in 1661–1665 as the guide of a certain Mr 'Jakob Thierry de Jong', a young gentleman on his Grand Tour. Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three volumes, that remained unpublished, but which he kept for friends to read. The painter-engraver Arnoud van Halen acquired these volumes and the Dutch artist biographer Arnold Houbraken was granted permission to read through them himself. This trip, which he began on 14 July 1661, included visits to England, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany and Switzerland. He describes the main sights of the cities he visits. His route home from Italy took him "from Venice to Padua, over Verona, Mantua, Trento, and Munich. In Munich he visited all of the rooms of the newly built Palace of the Bavarian Counts, and he described all of the paintings and statues he saw there. He then continued on to Augsburg, Regensburg, Nuremberg, Hanau, Frankfurt, Worms, Frankenthal, Heidelberg, Speyer, Strasbourg, Breisach, Basel, Zürich, Baden, Bern, Mainz, Cologne, Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Cleves, Nijmegen and Utrecht, where he arrived 23 August 1665." 舍林克斯的手寫日記寫於他1661–1665年旅行後的幾年，基於他現已遺失的筆記，現藏於哥本哈根皇家圖書館。由舍林克斯本人製作的抄本現藏於博德利圖書館。日記中涵蓋他在英格蘭旅行的部分已以英文出版。該日記是17世紀旅行狀況的重要記錄。雖然舍林克斯並未提供太多關於其藝術觀點或風景畫方法的見解，但他對羅馬宮殿藝術收藏的描述填補了當時荷蘭旅行文學的空白。舍林克斯可能受荷蘭政府委託，在其國外旅行期間繪製素描，因為他的許多畫作包含了可能引起政府情報部門關注的戰略要點。其中一些作品也被用於編纂著名的《布勞-范德赫姆地圖集》，該地圖集於1649年至1673年間在阿姆斯特丹出版。