Artus Quellinus

(b Antwerp, bapt 13 Sept 1653; d ?London, after 9 Dec 1686). Sculptor, son of (4) Artus Quellinus (ii). He trained in the studio of his father and c. 1682 went to London, where he soon established himself, collaborating regularly with Grinling Gibbons, for example on the altarpiece (destr.) for James II's Roman Catholic chapel at Whitehall Palace, London. John van Nost the elder was the foreman of Quellinus's studio, which specialized in funerary monuments, statues and portraits. In Westminster Abbey, London, he erected a monument to Thomas Thynne (c. 1682; in situ) that has a dramatic relief showing the murder of Thynne in Pall Mall. The marble statue of Sir John Cutler (1683; London, Grocers' Hall) demonstrates that Quellinus remained loyal to the Flemish tradition: the drapery, with deep, clear-cut pleats and headdress, as well as the face, are realistic.

Part of the Quellinus family

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