Adam Frans van der Meulen

Adam Frans van der Meulen
Portrait engraved by Pieter van Schuppen after design by Nicolas de Largillière
Born1632, Brussels
Died1690, Paris
NationalityFlemish, French
Known forPainting, tapestry design
MovementBaroque

Adam Frans van der Meulen or Adam-François van der Meulen[1][2] (11 January 1632 – 15 October 1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who was particularly known for his scenes of military campaigns and conquests.[3] Van der Meulen also painted portraits, hunting scenes, paintings of chateaux and landscapes. He created designs for prints and cartoons for tapestries.[4]

He worked in the service of the French king Louis XIV of France for whom he painted his victories, his new possessions and portraits.[2] He was instrumental in building the propagandistic image of the French king as the 'Sun King'.[5] His battle scenes had an important influence on the development on the genre of military painting in France.[6]

  1. ^ François van der Meulen, François Vandremelle, Anthony Francois vander Meulen, Antoine Francois vander Meulen, Antoine François van der Meulen, Monsieur de Melun
  2. ^ a b Adam Frans van der Meulen Archived 4 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Christine van Mulders. "Meulen, Adam Frans van der." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 4 September 2017
  4. ^ Hans Vlieghe, Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585-1700, Pelican history of art, New Haven: Yale University Press (1998): 173. ISBN 0-300-07038-1
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  6. ^ R. Wellington, 'The cartographic origins of Adam Frans van der Meulen's Marly cycle', Print Quarterly 28 (2011), p. 142-154