Isaack Gilsemans

{{Short description|Dutch merchant and artist (c.1606–1646)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Gilsemans 1642.jpg|thumb|''A view of the Murderers' Bay, as you are at anchor here in 15 fathom'' by Isaack Gilsemans, Alexander Turnbull Library,<ref name=":1" /> 1642]] '''Isaack Gilsemans''' (ca. 1606, in Rotterdam – 1646, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies),<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/368201 Gilsemans, Isack] at the RKD</ref> was a Dutch merchant, officer of the Dutch East India Company<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Anderson |first=Grahame Anderson |title=The merchant of the Zeehaen : Isaac Gilsemans and the voyages of Abel Tasman |publisher=Te Papa Press |year=2001 |isbn=9780909010751 |pages=VII, 88–89}}</ref> and artist.

==Biography== Gilsemans is most noted for joining the explorer Abel Tasman on his expedition in 1642-43 during which Tasmania, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands became known to Europeans. Gilsemans produced a number of drawings that documented island and native life. His depictions of the Māori people were the first for Europeans.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Gilsemans, Isaack. A view of the Murderers' Bay, as you are at anchor here in 15 fathom [1642]. Tasman, Abel Janszoon. Tasman's journal. Amsterdam, Friedrich Muller & Co, 1898.. Ref: PUBL-0086-021. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23220299 |access-date=15 May 2023 |website=Alexander Turnbull Library}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

A sketcher and cartographer, he is thought to have been responsible for the coastal profiles in Tasman's journal and therefore the first European to make an image of Van Diemen's Land.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.daao.org.au/bio/isaac-gilsemans/|title = Isaac Gilsemans :: Biography at :: At Design and Art Australia Online}}</ref> Gilsemans' chart is responsible for documenting the first European landing in Tasmania in 1642,<ref>{{Cite web| title=Some New Aspects of Tasman's Visit to the East Coast of Tasmania in 1642 | url=https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14423/1/1953_Meston_New_aspects_Tasman's_visit.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327133409/http://eprints.utas.edu.au/14423/1/1953_Meston_New_aspects_Tasman%27s_visit.pdf | archive-date=2016-03-27}}</ref> as a result of which Gilsemans Bay near Dunalley is named after him.

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==External links== * [https://www.amazon.com/The-Merchant-Zeehaen-Gilsemans-Voyages/dp/0909010757 "The Merchant of the Zeehaen: Isaac Gilsemans and the Voyages of Abel Tasman" by Grahame Anderson] * [https://eprints.utas.edu.au/14423/1/1953_Meston_New_aspects_Tasman's_visit.pdf "Some New Aspects of Tasman's Visit to the East Coast of Tasmania in 1642" by A. L. Meston]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilsemans, Isaack}} Category:1600s births Category:1646 deaths Category:Dutch Golden Age painters Category:Dutch male painters Category:Painters from Rotterdam Category:Dutch merchants Category:17th-century merchants Category:Explorers of Tasmania Category:Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company