Philip Zilcken - etching - signed lower right

Charles Louis Philippe Zilcken (The Hague, 20 April 1857 - Villefranche-sur-Mer, 3 October 1930), known as 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 he is considered, together with Marius Bauer and Hendrik Haverman, to be one of the most important Dutch orientalists of his time. As an etcher he acquired great fame through his technical skill in both his reproduction graphics (the reproduction of paintings using the etching technique) and in his free graphics. As a writer he made an international splash with his reflections on the Dutch art of his contemporaries, which were published in Dutch, French and English.