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Linking cultural industries in the early modern Low Countries, ca. 1475 - ca. 1725

Toussaint Gelton

Portrait
Name:Toussaint Gelton
Gender:male
Born:Vlaanderen circa
Died:Kopenhagen
Father:
Mother:

Occupations:

Occupational addresses:

Attributes

Category Attribute Value Date startDate end
Subject of painting Genregenrestukken
Subject of painting Landschaplandschappen
Subject of painting Portretportretten

Relations

Relation Modifier Date startDate end
Artistic
courtly client of Frederik III van Denemarken
Friendship
agent for Frederik III van Denemarken
witnessed baptism of Barbara Paulyn

References

External biographical records

Secondary sources

  1. Buijsen, E. (ed.) Haagse schilders in de Gouden Eeuw: het Hoogsteder Lexicon van alle schilders werkzaam in Den Haag 1600-1700, Den Haag: Kunsthandel Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder; Zwolle: Waanders (1998)
  2. Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008)
  3. Jager, Agela, 'Selling paintings to Sweden: Toussaint Gelton’s correspondence with Pontus Fredrik de la Gardie', Oud Holland 133 (2020), pp. 108-126
  4. Meißner, Günter, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, Teil 51, München-Leipzig: Saur (2006)
  5. Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Band 13, Leipzig: Engelmann (1920)