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Andreas Stech's Portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdańsk and Oxford. At Andreas Stech's Portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdańsk and Oxford. At the Origins of the Portrait of the Early Modern Scholar Author(s): Teresa Grzybkowska and David Daniel Source: Artibus et Historiae, Vol. 33, No. 66 (2012), pp. 287-316 Published by: IRSA s.c. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23509754 Accessed: 14-09-2016 18:35 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms IRSA s.c. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Artibus et Historiae This content downloaded from 137.155.121.13 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:35:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Teresa Grzybkowska Grzybkowska Andreas Stech's Portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk and Oxford. At the Origins of the Portrait of the Early Modern Scholar After many years I am returning to the subject of two portraits of the brilliant astronomer, the citizen of Gdansk (German Danzig), Johannes Hevelius (1610-1687)1. One of the paintings can be found, as of 1681, in the Gdansk City Council Library, now known as The Polish Academy of Sciences Gdansk Library [Fig. 1]2, whereas the second, donated by the astronomer in gratitude for accepting him into the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge, could be found, as of 1679, in the Bodleian Library in Oxford [Fig. 2], after which, in 2001, it was moved to the city's Museum of the History of Science3. This return to my earlier research was provoked by the exhibition Johannes Hevelius and Gdansk of his Times in Gdansk Historical Museum4, which was organised in the summer of 2011 in celebration of the 400th an niversary of the astronomer's birth. After more than 300 years the two almost identical portraits of Hevelius hung next to each other, making it possible, for the first time, to directly compare them. For the first time it also became possible to notice and decipher in the Oxford portrait the barely visible, yet legible signature of Andreas Stech (1635-1697), located to the right of the astronomer's finger touching the celestial globe: Andr. Stech/pinxit 167[7] [Fig. 3]. This content downloaded from 137.155.121.13 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:35:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Teresa Grzybkowska 1. Andreas Stech, «Portrait of Johannes Hevelius», 1677, oil on canvas, 125 x 103 cm, Gdansk, The Polish Academy of Sciences Gdansk Library. Photo: © The Polish Academy of Sciences Gdansk Library 288 This content downloaded from 137.155.121.13 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:35:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Andreas Stech's Portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk and Oxford. At the Origins of the Portrait of the Early Modern Scholar 2. Andreas Stech, «Portrait of Johannes Hevelius», 1677-1679, oil on canvas, 126 x 102 cm, Oxford, Museum of the History of Science (before conservation). Photo: © Bodleian Library 289 This content downloaded from 137.155.121.13 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:35:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Teresa Grzybkowska 3. AndreasAndreas Stech, Stech, «Portrait «Portrait of of Johannes Hevelius»,Hevelius», Oxford, Oxford, detail ofof Fig.Fig. 33 - - signature: signature: Andr. Stech/Stech/ pinxit pinxit 1671?]. 767[?]. The Gdansk Portrait A pen, for the moment idle, sticks out from the scholar's right hand. He sits at a table covered by a table carpet, at work on the The artist depicted Hevelius in his study, with bookshelves to his second volume of the Machinae coelestis, in which he is about to left and a decorative drape in the upper right-hand corner. He Is record his observations from 23 February 1677 [Fig. 4]. The full sitting at a table, his bare head of graying, wavy hair reaching entry for that day can be read on page 789 of this work, published down to his shoulders. His facial hair - his moustache and small in 1679 [Fig. 5]5. From underneath the tome, at the edge of the beard - do not hide his fleshy lips. The astronomer is dressed table, a falling leaf with a map of the moon emerges recording an in loose, casually elegant attire of a costly, lustrous Chinese silk observation made in Gdansk on 11 April 1644, the illustration of popular at the time, In a sophisticated dark brown color. The soft which can be found on page 311 of the Selenographia (published and profusely pleated cloth falls in folds parallel to the spines of in Gdansk in 1647; Fig. 6)6. The forefinger of the astronomer's left the books on the shelves. The astronomer has wrapped a light- hand rests on the celestial globe - in exactly the place of the bright colored scarf around his neck. A short chain, almost certainly for est star in the northern sky, known as Arcturus7. Hevelius points at hanging some kind of optical device, is visible on the silk fabric. Arcturus not by coincidence, for it is a first magnitude star and si 290 This content downloaded from 137.155.121.13 on Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:35:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Andreas Stech's Portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk and Oxford. At the Origins of the Portrait of the Early Modern Scholar 4. Andreas Stech, «Portrait of Johannes Hevelius», Gdansk, detail of Fig. 1 - manuscript of Machinae coelestis with the beginning of the observation from 23 February 1677. Photo: K. Izdebski 5. 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