Hubertus Quellinus

[1] Hubertus' mother was the sister of the prominent landscape painter Lucas van Uden.

He witnessed that he was present when the lifeless body of Pietro Testa was the retrieved from the Tiber in 1650.

[1] The publication on the new City Hall of Amsterdam was published in Amsterdam in 1660 consisted of two parts: Afbeelding van 't stadt huys van Amsterdam: in dartigh coopere plaaten (Images of the City Hall of Amsterdam in 30 copper plates), by Jacob van Campen and De voornaemste statuen ende ciraten vant konstrijck stadthuys van Amstelredam, tmeeste in marmer gemaeckt door Artus Quellinus (The main statues and ornaments of the Amsterdam City Hall mostly made in marble by Artus Quellinus).

The first part consisted of 30 plates depicting the Amsterdam City Hall after designs made by Jacob Vennekool and engraved by Dancker Danckerts while the second part of the publication in two volumes included prints after the marble statues and ornaments executed by Artus Quellinus the Elder in the Amsterdam City Hall.

[6] The publication was instrumental in the spread of the Baroque style in Northern Europe until the end of the 17th century, and was used by nearly all followers of the Flemish Baroque style in Europe as the most important pattern-book and source of inspiration in the fields of architectural ornamentation and sculpture.