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Hulsen [Hulsius; van der Hulst], Esaias van
(b Middelburg, ?c. 1585; d Stuttgart, 1624). Dutch goldsmith, engraver and painter. He was the son of an emigrant family domiciled at Frankfurt am Main from 1602. By 1610 the Stuttgart Kunstkammer of Duke John Frederick of Württemberg (reg 1608–28) already contained naturalistic animal sculptures made of wax and feathers, which the Augsburg goldsmith Johannes Schwegler produced in collaboration with ‘young Hulsio’. Similarly, Hulsen was also already engaged in the project to build a grotto for the Duke at Stuttgart before he became a court artist in 1611. Hulsen participated in the planning of the grotto, as well as furnishing it with paintings and sculptures, until the end of his life. In 1613 the engineer Gerhard Philippi (d 1621) had been charged with the work for the grotto and its ornamental fountains, and after his death, this reponsibility passed to Hulsen who left the project unfinished in 1624. Hulsen’s technical knowledge even with regard to fortifications engineering is verified by a lost wooden model, for which he was paid by the Nuremberg council in 1617.
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