Biography

He traveled to France with Lambert Doomer

Lambert Doomer

Lambert Doomer was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.-Biography:Doomer was the third of nine children of Herman Doomer and his wife Baertje Martens, who ran a successful business in ebony-veneer furniture...

 in 1646. After that he undertook another journey in 1661-1665 as the guide of Heere Jakob Thierry de Jong, a young gentleman on his Grand Tour

Grand Tour

The Grand Tour was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class European young men of means. The custom flourished from about 1660 until the advent of large-scale rail transit in the 1840s, and was associated with a standard itinerary. It served as an educational rite of passage...

. According to Houbraken, Schellinks compiled his drawings and notes about this last journey in three volumes, that weren't published, but which he kept for friends to read. The painter-engraver Arnoud Van Halen (1673–1732) acquired these volumes and Houbraken was granted permission to read through them himself.
This trip included visits to England, France, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Germany, and Switzerland; copies of his travel journals are in the Royal Library of Copenhagen, and the originals are in the National Library of Vienna. They form an important record of the conditions of travel in the 17th century. Schellinks journals of his first trip with Doomer were not read or commented on by Houbraken, because he probably didn't know they existed. They are kept in the Fondation Custodia in Paris, the foundation started by Frits Lugt

Frits Lugt

Frederik Johannes "Frits" Lugt , was a self-taught collector and connoisseur of Netherlandish drawings and prints and a selfless and tireless compiler of essential reference tools documenting Northern European prints and drawings, collectors' stamps and sale catalogues...

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External links

• Dutch Artists and Mughal Paintings - Notes by Kavita Singh of a lecture given by Professor Sanjay

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