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(1) Erasmus Quellinus (i)
(b ?St-Truiden, Liège, c. 1584; d Antwerp, 22 Jan 1640). Sculptor. He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St Luke in 1606. He married Betje van Uden, the sister of the painter, draughtsman and engraver Lucas van Uden, and the couple had three sons: the painter (2) Erasmus Quellinus (ii), the sculptor (3) Artus Quellinus (i) and the engraver Hubertus Quellinus (1619–87). Their daughter Cornelia married Peeter Verbrugghen (i). Erasmus the elder is best known as a sculptor of works after the Antique, and his success in Antwerp is endorsed by the number of posts that he held between 1610 and 1627 in the Societies of the Walloons and of the Immaculate Conception, as well as by the number of his pupils. Gabriels’s suggestion that Erasmus produced only ornaments is incorrect; documents show that he also executed individual statues, although none has survived. His only known extant work is the oak pulpit (1635) in the chapel of the St Elisabeth Gasthuis, Antwerp; it consists of a simple barrel carved with figures of the Evangelists and their symbols, but it indicates Erasmus’s mastery of balance and symmetry, even though there is no sense of realism.
Part of the Quellinus family
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