Philip Zilcken - Ets, Dover. - Sold

Charles Louis Philippe Zilcken (The Hague, April 20, 1857 - Villefranche, October 3, 1930), called Philip in Dutch collections, was a Dutch visual artist and writer.[1] North Africa was a great source of inspiration for his work as a painter and, together with Marius Bauer and Hendrik Haverman, he is considered one of the most important Dutch orientalists of his time. As an etcher he achieved great fame through his technical skills in both his reproduction graphics (reproducing paintings using the etching technique) and in his free graphics. As a writer he created an international furore through his reflections on Dutch art by his contemporaries, which were published in Dutch, French and English.

Lifecycle After completing his secondary education at the Gymnasium Haganum, Philippe Zilcken took lessons at the Drawing Academy in The Hague with Karel Klinkenberg and Anton Mauve. At the age of 16, he was asked to take up his position as 'secretary intime officieux' of Queen Sophie of the Netherlands. He was co-founder of the Nederlandsche Etsclub (1885 - 1896) and from 1896 to 1905 worked as an image editor for Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift, the predecessor of the news magazine Elsevier. In addition to Dutch artists' associations such as Arti et Amicitiae, De Haagse Kunstkring and Pulchri Studio, Zilcken was a member of the French Société des Peintres Orientalistes. He received distinctions at various exhibitions and was awarded several knighthoods.