1. Thomas Wijck was a Dutch painter of port views and genre paintings.
10 Facts About Thomas Wijck
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Thomas Wijck journeyed to Italy, presumably by 1640, the year in which a 'Tommaso fiammingo, pittore' is documented as residing in Rome in the Via della Fontanella.
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Thomas Wijck resided in the environs of Naples, where he executed many sketches which he subsequently worked up into drawings of coast views.
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In 1642 Thomas Wijck returned to the northern Netherlands, where he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke.
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Thomas Wijck went to England about the time of the Restoration and was much employed.
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Thomas Wijck excelled in Italianate paintings of shipping and seaports, populated with many figures, very frequently odd characters such as alchemists and misers.
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Thomas Wijck's style resembles that of the loose group of Dutch and Flemish genre painters working in Rome who are called the 'Bamboccianti' and were influenced by the genre paintings of Pieter van Laar.
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Thomas Wijck painted fairs, public markets, and the interiors of chemists' laboratories.
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Thomas Wijck's painting of an alchemist is said to have influenced Joseph Wright of Derby's similar picture.
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Thomas Wijck painted a View of London before the fire, and another of the north bank of the Thames, from Southwark, exhibiting the mansions of the nobility in the Strand.