Jan-Erasmus Quellinus [SEP] date of death
Jan-Erasmus Quellinus
Jan-Erasmus Quellinus or Jan Erasmus Quellinus (1634 in Antwerp – 11 March 1715 in Mechelen) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman and a member of the famous Quellinus family of artists. He was one of the last prominent representatives of the great Flemish school of history and portrait painting in the 17th century. His work displays the classicizing influences of his father Erasmus Quellinus the Younger and Paolo Veronese.
Life.
Jan-Erasmus Quellinus was born into a family of sculptors and painters, which
of another, less skilled sculptor.
The communion rails and part of the choir stalls were made by Laurens Vandenreyt (or Vandereyt) and date from the late 17th century. Jan Rutten from Sint-Truiden completed the stalls after the death of Laurens Vandenreyt. The Baroque high altar contains a painting representing Christ on the cross attributed to the Antwerp painter Erasmus Quellinus II.
The side altars are portico altars and contain the Baroque paintings " Assumption and Coronation of Mary" and the "Finding of the Cross", both