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Theodoor Wilkens - Fontein tegen een stadsmuur, waarin een trap is gebouwd

Fontein tegen een stadsmuur, waarin een trap is gebouwd (1700 - 1748)

Theodoor Wilkens (Dutch, 1690 - 1748)
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The Artist died in 1748 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.

Theodoor Wilkens or Theodorus Wilkens (alias Goedewil), was an 18th-century painter and draughtsman from the Dutch Republic who specialised in landscapes.

Nothing is known about his apprenticeship. He travelled to Rome in 1710 or 1711. According to the early biographer Arnold Houbraken he travelled to Italy and joined the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome, and adopted the nickname Goedewil (good intention). Houbraken tells an anecdote about Wilkens' trip to Italy which he made together with the painter Hendrik Frans van Lint from Antwerp. The pair had set up their parasols and had started drawing in their portfolios to sketch the ruins of the old town of Ronciglione 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 were saved by a constable who brought them before the city governor who let them go after they had explained matters.

Back in Amsterdam Wilkens used his Italian sketches to make new drawings. His Italian landscapes date from the period of 1715 to 1744.

His death date is uncertain, but his painting collection was auctioned in Amsterdam on 17 June 1748.

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Southern Imaginary Landscape with Mountains and a Lake (late 17th–18th century)

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