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(7) Thomas Quellinus
(b Antwerp, bapt 17 March 1661; d Antwerp, bur 7 Sept 1709). Sculptor, son of (4) Artus Quellinus (ii). After completing his apprenticeship with his father, he joined his brother (6) Artus Quellinus (iii) in London, where he married Anna Maria Cocques and remained until at least January 1688. By mid-1689 he was in Copenhagen, where he oversaw the numerous Scandinavian commissions received in his father’s studio but also established himself as an independent artist. His studio, which was mainly staffed by sculptors from Flanders, specialized in funerary monuments for Danish and north German patrons. The tomb of Marselis-Casius-Rodstun (Århus Cathedral; in situ) was produced between 1702 and 1704 and includes figures of Prudentia (terracotta model, Brussels, Mus. A. Anc.) and Minerva; these are graceful and elegant and in the style of Artus Quellinus (ii), although the harsh features of the faces and the agitated drapery are characteristic of Thomas Quellinus. After 1701 he regularly visited Antwerp and returned permanently in 1707, when he became a master in the city’s Guild of St Luke; he produced few works after this date.
Part of the Quellinus family
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