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Adrianus Lodewijk Krook van Harpen
MALEAmsterdam, Netherlands 19-08-1818 - † Amsterdam, Netherlands 22-03-1885
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- Genootschaps-lid
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- Maatschappij van Verdiensten onder de Zinspreuk ‘Felix Meritis’
member 1839 - 1875~
Provenance
- Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie. https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/46555 (last checked: 21-02-2017)
- Naamlijst van de leden en donatrices der maatschappij Felix Meritis (Amsterdam 1875).
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Member Group(s)
- Database Clusius
Variant Names
- Valkenborch, Lucas van
- Falkenburg, Lucas van
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Biography:
Celebrated landscape and genre painter, in the style of Pieter Breughel. Worked in Mechelen (circle of landscape painters, Hans Bol) and Antwerp, but had to flee in 1566 because he was a protestant. Worked a while in Liege and Aken and then came into service of archduke Matthias in Linz (1582-93), but often visited Vienna. There he met Carolus Clusius (again?) and other scholars, merchants and artists from the Southern-Netherlands (as appears from letters from Henri Bloeme to Clusius, University Library Leiden). Worked for emperor Rudolph II as well. In 1593 he went to Frankfurt where he again met his brother Maarten, who was also a landscape painter.
Residence
- Mechelen  - 1566
- Frankfurt am Main 1593 - 1597
- Linz 1582
- Liège 1566 - 1567
- Aachen 
- Antwerpen 1570 - 1581
- Wien 1591 - 1593
Occupation
- painter 1560 - 1597
Education
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- Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, Deel 4, p.851-852
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- Boerhaave (instrumentenmakers)
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Biography:
Silo was a gifted and skilled general technician, who became involved in making telescopes. In 1695 he worked in Amsterdam as a producer of gold threads ('gouddraattrecker'). According to the eulogy of an anonymous friend (the painter Cornelis Ploos van Amstel?), Silo specialized in the production of metal tubes. As a producer of metal tubes he was introduced into telescope making. In the 1690s Silo invented a way of pulling lead and tin tubes, which mostly were used for distillation equipment and fountains, including those in the French waterworks of Marly and Fontainebleau. Silo is also credited for the invention of cutting rods for velvet weavers. ('snijroeden voor de fluweelwevers). In these years Silo started to make drawings of ships at the Amsterdam dockyards. This activity combined with his mathematical and technical skills, led him to propose some improvements in shipbuilding. He also learnt to paint, and evolved into a marine painter, signing his paintings with the letters 'A.S.'. In 1698 he instructed the Russian Czar Peter the Great in these matters. Through his painting, Silo also became interested in optics, and so he started to grind lenses. According to the Amsterdam historian Johannes Wagenaar, Silo made good telescopes, magnifying glasses and also wax models. One of his (now lost) wax models was a portrait of the merchant Jacobus van de Wall, a friend who much later - in the 1740s - became responsible for the design and construction of the largest reflecting telescope ever made in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. An objective glass made by Adam Silo was in the collection of the Dutch philosopher and optician Frans Hemsterhuis, a man who in the eighteenth century still continued the quest for optical knowledge which was pursued by his Dutch forefathers already more than a century earlier.
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- technician 1700~ - 1760, Amsterdam
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- Archive Museum Boerhaave
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- Genootschaps-lid
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- regent  - Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten - Den Haag
- court painter to prince William V of Orange 
Education
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- Pictura HagensisDen Haag
member, hoofdman and deken (1805) 1760 - [1805.. - Gezelschap ter Beoeffening der proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte in ’s Hage
extraordinary honorary member 1795 - 1809~
Provenance
- Naamen der leden van het Gezelschap, ter beoeffening der proefondervindelijke natuurkunde (Den Haag 1795).
- A.J. van der Aa, Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. Deel 8-1 (Haarlem 1867) 8.
- Naamen der leden van het Gezelschap, ter beoeffening der proefondervindelijke wysbegeerte (Den Haag 1800).
- Naamen der leden van het Gezelschap, ter beoeffening der proefondervindelijke wysbegeerte (Den Haag 1803).
- Naamlijst der leden van de Maatschappij voor natuur- en letterkunde (Den Haag 1809).
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