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See also:FRUYTIERS, See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
PHILIP (1627–1666) , Flemish painter and engraver, was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the See also:Jesuits' See also:college at See also:Antwerp in 1627, and entered the Antwerp gild of painters without a See also:fee in 1631. He is described in the See also:register of that institution as "illuminator, painter and engraver." The current See also:account of his See also:life is " that he worked exclusively in See also:water See also:colours, yet was so remarkable in this See also:branch of his See also:art for arrangement, See also:drawing, and especially for force and clearness of See also:colour, as to excite the admiration of See also:Rubens, whom he portrayed with all his See also:family." The truth is that he was an artist of the most versatile talents, as may be judged from the fact that in 1646 he executed an See also:Assumption with figures of life See also:size, and four smaller pictures in oil, for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Jacques at Antwerp, for which he received the considerable sum of 1150 florins. Unhappily no undoubted See also:production of his See also:hand has been preserved. All that we can point to with certainty is a See also:series of etched plates, chiefly portraits, which are acknowledged to have been powerfully and skilfully handled. If, however, we See also:search the portfolios of art collections on the See also:European See also:continent, we sometimes stumble upon miniatures on vellum, See also:drawn with See also:great See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent and coloured with extraordinary brilliancy. In See also:form they quite recall the See also:works of Rubens, and these, it may be, are the See also:work of Philip Fruytiers.
End of Article: FRUYTIERS, PHILIP (1627–1666)
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