Editing Evert Collier

{{short description|Dutch painter}}

{{For|the English pirate|Edward Collier (pirate)}}
[[File:Evert Collier's Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still-life.jpg|thumb|300px|Evert Collier's oil on canvas Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still-life, 1684, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]]]
[[File:Edward Collier's trompe l'oeil painting.jpg|thumb|300px|Edward Collier's ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' painting]]
[[File:Parliament-Edward Collier.jpg|thumb|300px|Edward Collier's [[vanitas]] entitled Parliament, Circa 1695]]

'''Evert Collier''' (26 January 1642 – few days before 8 September 1708) was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] [[Still life|still-life]] [[Painting|painter]] known for [[vanitas]] and ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' paintings.  His first name is sometimes spelled "Edward" or "Edwaert" or "Eduwaert" or "Edwart," and his last name is sometimes spelled "Colyer" or "Kollier".

==Life==
Collier was baptized Evert Calier in [[Breda]], [[North Brabant]].<ref name=RKD>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/17728 Edwaert Collier] in the [[RKD]]</ref>  He was trained in [[Haarlem]], where his earliest paintings show the influence of [[Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne]], who became a member of the [[Haarlem Guild of St. Luke]] in 1649, and whose son [[Laurens van der Vinne]] listed "Evert Colier" in 1702 as one of the Haarlem guild members who had known his father.<ref name=HRLM>De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798, Hessel Miedema, 1980, {{ISBN|90-6469-584-9}}</ref> Van der Vinne was probably his teacher when Collier registered with the Haarlem guild in 1664.<ref>Though Collier is listed in the Haarlem guild register as a member on a page headed "1646", the last two digits must have been switched and he probably became a member in 1664 (a year suspiciously lacking member registrations), like other members listed with him and mistakenly registered on that page, such as [[Evert Oudendijck]] and [[Egbert van Heemskerck]].</ref> They both later influenced the Haarlem still-life painter Barend van Eisen.<ref name=RKD/>

By 1667, Collier had moved to [[Leiden]], where he became a member of the [[Leiden Guild of St. Luke]] in 1673. He moved to [[Amsterdam]] by 1686 and to London in 1693. He returned to Leiden in the years 1702–1706, based on signed and dated works there, but was back in London at the end of his life where he was buried September 8, 1708 at [[St James's Church, Piccadilly|St. James's, Piccadilly]].<ref>According to Paul Taylor, Londen, July 1999</ref>

The [[Denver Art Museum]], the [[Honolulu Museum of Art]], the [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]], the [[National Portrait Gallery (United Kingdom)]], the [[Rijksmuseum]] (Amsterdam), the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] and the [[Tate]] (London) are among the public collections having paintings by Evert Collier.

The US historian, Dror Wahrman, has written a book on Collier's ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' works, ''Mr. Collier's Letter Racks'' (OUP, 2014). The book brings together a wide range of the painter's still lifes from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, mostly from the time when Collier was living in London. Their themes were almost exclusively arrangements of journals, engravings, letters, medals, combs, sealing wax sticks and other ephemera, signifying an updating of the older ''[[memento mori]]'' still life model.

==Works==
His works tend to be an arrangement of pieces of paper painted to "pop out" of the surface in a ''[[trompe-l'œil]]'' fashion. Like Van der Vinne before him, he often included prints, but these tended to be popular prints of the day.

An oil on canvas painting (''Vanitas Still Life with Globe, Skull and Violin'') previously attributed to Collier was later attributed to [[Pieter Legouch]].<ref>{{cite web|title=toegeschreven aan Pieter Legouch|url= https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/images/record?query=Pieter+Legouch&start=2|publisher=RKD|accessdate=October 29, 2021}}</ref>
<gallery>
File:Edward Collier 20171205.jpg|''A trompe-l'œil still life of a letter rack'', 54 x 67.3&nbsp;cm, includes a print after Staverenus
File:Petrus Staverenus - Five senses, a laughing man smoking a pipe (smell) 2019 CKS 17196 0150.jpg|''Smell'', c. 1650, by [[Petrus Staverenus]]
</gallery>

# ''A Trompe-l'œil of Newspapers, Letters and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board'' (1699), 58.8 × 46.2&nbsp;cm
# ''Edward Collier'' (1683), Oil on Canvas, 44.4 × 52.8&nbsp;cm
# ''Still Life'' (1699), Oil on Canvas, 76.2 × 63.5&nbsp;cm
# ''Still Life: The Smell'' (1695), Oil on Canvas, 24 5/8 × 20 1/2 in
# ''Still Life: Parliament'' (1695), Oil on Canvas, 24 1/2 x 29 3/4 in, M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans
# ''Still Life with a volume of Wither's Emblemes'' (1696), Oil on Canvas, 83.8 × 107.9&nbsp;cm
# ''A [[Vanitas]]''
# ''Vanitas'' (1662), Oil on Wood, 94 × 112.1&nbsp;cm
# ''Vanitas Still Life'' (1684), Oil on Canvas, 99 × 123&nbsp;cm
# ''Self Portrait with Vanitas Still Life'' (1684), Oil on Canvas, [[Honolulu Museum of Art]]
# ''A Vanitas Still Life with a Flag, Candlestick, Musical Instruments, Books, Writing Paraphernalia, Globes, and Hourglass''(1662), Oil on Canvas

==Notes==
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'''Attribution:'''
* {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Coleyer, Evert |volume=1}}

==References==
*[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/17728 Netherlands Institute for Art History] (Dutch only)
*Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart / unter Mitwirkung von 300 Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes; hrsg. von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker (1907–1950)
*Adriaan van der Willigen en Fred G. Meijer, A Dictionary of Dutch and Flemish Still-life Painters Working in Oils, 1525–1725, Leiden 2003

==Further reading==
* Tuominen, Minna: ''The Still Lifes of Edwaert Collier (1642–1708).'' Ph.D. thesis. University of Helsinki, 2014. {{ISBN|978-952-10-9980-9}} ([http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-10-9981-6 On-line version.])
* Wahrman, Dror: ''Mr. Collier's Letter Racks'', Oxford University Press, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-19-973886-1}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Evert Collier}}
*[http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/collier/index.html Web Gallery of Art]

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