Background
He was the son of Artus Quellinus II and brother to the sculptor Thomas Quellinus and the painter Cornelis Quellinus He trained in his father"s workshop in Antwerp before moving to London in 1682.
He was the son of Artus Quellinus II and brother to the sculptor Thomas Quellinus and the painter Cornelis Quellinus He trained in his father"s workshop in Antwerp before moving to London in 1682.
His name is often anglicised to Arnold Quellan, Arnold Quellin or Arnold Quellinus or mistakenly given as January Quellinus. There is evidence that he was working in the studio of Hugh May in 1679, before moving to that of the Flemish carver and sculptor Grinling Gibbons in 1680, joining fellow Flemings Antoon Verhuke, John Nost, Peter Van Dievoet and Laurent Van Der Meulen Quellinus III and Gibbons collaborated on the altarpiece for the Roman Catholic chapel in Whitehall Palace (1685-1686).