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Van Ertborn aged 21, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Posthumous bust of van Ertborn by Jozef Geefs, 1849

Florent van Ertborn (4 April 1784 - 28 August 1840) was a Dutch and Belgian politician and art collector.

Biography

Florentius Josephus, Knight van Ertborn was born in Antwerp in 1784 in a wealthy, aristocratic family, the only son of Emmanuel van Ertborn and Catharina de Witte.[1] As a yong man, he made a Grand Tour to Italy and France, becoming acquainted with the art of the Old Masters. In Antwerp, he was a member of the commission responsible for the distribution of artworks which had returned from France after the defeat of Napoleon, and helped with the reopening of the museum of the local Fine Arts Academy.[2]

He was involved with politics from an early age, and was friends with Jan Frans Willems, one of the leaders of the early Flemish Movement. He became a member of the provincial council of Antwerp in 1817, mayor of Antwerp in 1818, and governor of the Province of Utrecht in 1828. As mayor, he imposed the new language laws, making Dutch the official government language of Antwerp. Van Ertborn was bilingual French-Dutch.[2] He was a chamberlain to King William I of the Netherlands.[1] He moved to Dordrecht and married in 1830 the 18-year-old Baroness Adriana Eleonora Sophia van Heeckeren-Wierse. That same year 1830 Belgium became independent, and van Ertborn laid down his functions. He got reelected as mayor of Antwerp in 1831, but as a proponent of the reunion with the Netherlands refused and stayed in Dordrecht until his death in 1840. He is buried in Antwerp.[3]

Van Ertborn was an avid collector of art, mainly 15th and 16th century paintings from Flanders and neighbouring countries. These were barely collected or studied at the time, usually judged inferior to the Baroque art of the 17th century, and due to the end of the French Revolution there was a large supply of works on the market. He was advised by the German art historian and collector Sulpiz Boisserée[4] and one of his friends, the painter Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, restored some of the works. They also, together with Jan Adriaan Snijers, formed the acquisitions committee of the Antwerp Museum.[2] He legated all 115 works to the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, which was at the time still the museum of the local Academy of Fine Arts.

Collection

As described in the 1894 catalogue of the museum collection[5]

  1. Pieter Aertsen, Calvary: Current attribution Jan Van Amstel[1]
  2. Fra Angelico, Saint Romuald[2]
  3. Antonello da Messina, Calvary[3]
  4. Antonello da Messina, Portrait of a Man: Current attribution Hans Memling[4]
  5. Jerome Bosch, Temptation of Saint Anthony[5]
  6. Dirk Bouts, The Blessed Virgin[6]
  7. Dirk Bouts, Saint Christopher: current attribution Quinten Massys[7]
  8. Paul Bril, The Prodigal Son; current attribution Lucas van Valckenborch[8]
  9. Petrus Christus, Saint Jerome: current attribution "anonymous"[9]
  10. Francis Clouet, Francois II, dauphin de France; current attribution Jean Clouet[10]
  11. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve[11]
  12. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Charity[12]
  13. Herri met de Bles, The Repose in Egypt: current attribution Gerard David[13]
  14. Joachim Patinir, Flight into Egypt[14]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Ertborn, Florentius Josephus ridder van". Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 6 (in Dutch). A. W. Sijthoff. 1924.
  2. ^ a b c Rademakers, Anna (2020). "Florent van Ertborn, burgemeester en kunstverzamelaar". Moederstad en vaderland: Nationale identiteit en lokale trots in de schilderswereld van het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden (1815-1839) (in Dutch). Verloren. ISBN 9789087048396.
  3. ^ De verzameling Ridder Florent van Ertborn in het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen. Antwerp: Verzekeringsmaatschappij van de Schelde n.v. 1971.
  4. ^ "Collecting Early Netherlandish Paintings in Europe and the United States". Early Netherlandish Paintings: rediscovery, Reception and Research. Amsterdam University Press. 2017. ISBN 9789048505227.
  5. ^ Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculptures in the Royal Museum of Antwerp. Antwerp: Administrative Council of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. 1894.


Category:1784 births Category:1840 deaths Category:Art collectors from Antwerp Category:Mayors of Antwerp, Belgium Category:King's and Queen's Commissioners of Utrecht

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