Teylers Eerste Schilderijenzaal

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Eerste Schilderijenzaal

The Eerste Schilderijenzaal, or Painting Gallery I, is one of two art gallery rooms in Teylers Museum and is the oldest art gallery for contemporary Dutch art in the Netherlands. It was built onto the back of Teylers Oval Room in 1838. It was the young museum's first exhibition space for paintings and could be entered through the Oval Room, which was itself located behind the Fundatiehuis, the former home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst.

Teylers Museum Art museum, Natural history museum, Science museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands

Teylers Museum is an art, natural history, and science museum in Haarlem, Netherlands. Established in 1778, Teylers Museum was founded as a centre for contemporary art and science. The historic centre of the museum is the neoclassical Oval Room (1784), which was built behind the house of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702–1778), the so-called Fundatiehuis. Pieter Teyler was a wealthy cloth merchant and banker of Scottish descent, who bequeathed his fortune for the advancement of religion, art, and science. He was a Mennonite and follower of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Teylers Oval Room room in the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands

The Oval Room in the Teylers Museum was the first part of the museum that was opened in 1784. It could be entered through the garden of the fundatiehuis, the former home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst. The building has an oval shape built around its centerpiece, a mineralogical cabinet. The Oval Room consists of two floors; the ground floor with its display cabinets and a gallery of books that connects to the Teylers Library. On top of the room, on the roof, the astronomical observatory used to be a landmark that could be seen for miles along the river Spaarne. The gallery and observatory are longer accessible to the public, though the gallery can be seen from the ground floor.

Fundatiehuis (Teyler) biographical museum

The Fundatiehuis is the former family home of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst on the Damstraat 21 in Haarlem, Netherlands. After his death it became the seat of the Teylers Stichting and through its front door, visitors could reach the Oval room.

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History

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Johan Conrad Greive, Interior of Paintings Gallery I, drawing, 1862.

Teylers Foundation started collecting contemporary Dutch paintings in 1821. The paintings were either commissioned directly from the painters or acquired at exhibitions. The first room used to display paintings was the room that is today used as a print cabinet and was added to the Oval room in 1824 along with the library room upstairs. [1] The lack of light quickly made viewing the paintings there unpopular and it was used mostly for lectures and experiments. According to the archives, the expansion was done by the foundation's own building crew that was on hand for day-to-day improvements. The gallery had large curved windows like the Oval room, which have since been closed. An impression of the original windows can be seen in a charcoal sketch by Johan Conrad Greive in 1862. The collection today is mostly based on that same group of paintings. The gallery also contains a table that was used to hold the portfolios of drawings and a similar portfolio with Rembrandt and Michelangelo reproductions can still be consulted (the actual drawings are held in special storage).

Johan Conrad Greive 19th-century Dutch painter

Johan Conrad Greive (1837–1891) was a 19th-century Dutch painter.

Paintings

The selection of paintings was done mostly according to the advice of the curator and concierge, who lived in the Fundatiehuis. For the early days this was Vincent Jansz van der Vinne. Van der Vinne was replaced by Wybrand Hendriks, whose own works, those of his friends, and works by his successor Gerrit Jan Michaëlis hang in the gallery. No works by Van der Vinne are represented, who left Teylers after a disagreement with Martin van Marum. One of the first large canvases to be purchased (1825) was Storm at sea, by the marine painter Johannes Christiaan Schotel. A few years later, its counterpart was ordered: Calm sea. [2] It is striking that, in the early period, paintings were often bought in pairs.

Vincent Jansz van der Vinne painter from the Northern Netherlands

Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne, was a Dutch 18th century painter and the great-grandson of Vincent van der Vinne.

Gerrit Jan Michaëlis painter from the Northern Netherlands

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Martin van Marum Scientist from the Northern Netherlands

Martin(us) van Marum was a Dutch physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. Van Marum introduced modern chemistry in the Netherlands after the theories of Lavoisier, and several scientific applications for general use. He became famous for his demonstrations with instruments, most notable the Large electricity machine, to show statical electricity and chemical experiments while curator for the Teylers Museum.

List of painters in alphabetical order, accompanied by an example hanging in the first gallery:

Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff painter from the Northern Netherlands

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Johannes Warnardus Bilders painter from the Northern Netherlands

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David Bles 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands

David Bles, was a 19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

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References

  1. ↑ article [ permanent dead link ] M. Kersten,'Een schilderijenzaal of een gehoorzaal De polemiek tussen Directeuren en Genootschappen over de bestemming van de ruimte onder de leeszaal van Teylers Stichting (1824-1829', Teylers Magazijn 13, 1986, 9-12. (in Dutch).
  2. ↑ museum website Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine on Paintings Gallery I

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