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Cornelis van Haarlem

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638), Dutch Golden Age painter and
draughtsman, was one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important Cornelis van Haarlem
forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.

Contents
Biography
Works
Gallery
Notes
References
External links
Self-portrait (c. 1588–1590)
Born Cornelis Cornelisz. van
Biography Haarlem
1562
Born in Haarlem, Cornelis Corneliszoon was a pupil of Pieter Pietersz in Haarlem, and later Gillis Coignet in Haarlem, Habsburg
Antwerp.[1] He is known among art historians as a member of the Haarlem Mannerists, who were highly Netherlands
influenced by the work of Bartholomeus Spranger, whose drawings were brought to Haarlem by Carel van
Died 11 November 1638 (aged
Mander in 1585, and had a strong immediate effect.[2] He painted mainly portraits as well as mythological
and Biblical subjects. Initially Cornelis Cornelisz painted large-size, highly stylized works with Italianate 75–76)
nudes in twisted poses with a grotesque, unnatural anatomy. Later, his style changed to one based on the Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Netherlandish realist tradition. Nationality Dutch

When his parents fled Haarlem, as the Spanish army laid siege to the city in 1573 during the Eighty Years' Style Northern Mannerism
War, Cornelis Cornelisz remained behind and was raised by the painter Pieter Pietersz the Elder, his first
teacher. Later, in 1580-1581 Corneliszoon studied in Rouen, France, and Antwerp (with Coignet), before
returning to Haarlem, where he stayed the rest of his life. He became a respected member of the community and
in 1583 he received his first official commission from the city of Haarlem, a militia company portrait, the
Banquet of the Haarlem Civic Guard. He later became city painter of Haarlem and received numerous official
commissions. As a portrait painter, both of groups and individuals, he was an important influence on Frans
Hals. He married Maritgen Arentsdr Deyman, the daughter of a mayor of Haarlem, sometime before 1603. In
1605, he inherited a third of his wealthy father-in-law's estate.

Works The Fall of the Titans (1588–1590)

Together with Carel van Mander, Hendrick Goltzius and other artists, he started an informal drawing school
that has become known in art history circles as the Haarlem Academy or "Haarlem Mannerists". Probably this was a very informal grouping,
perhaps meeting to draw nude models, and certainly to exchange artistic views.[2] Corneliszoon also played a role in the failed attempt to make a
new charter for the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1630, which tried to raise the status of the artists. His registered pupils were Salomon de Bray,
Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Cornelis Engelsz, and Gerrit Pietersz Sweelink.[1] Among his students was Cornelis Claesz Heda (brother of Willem
Claeszoon Heda), who seems to have exported Cornelisz' particular brand of mannerism to India, where he was active at the court of the sultan of
Bijapur.[3]

Paintings by him are on display at the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery in
London, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and other museums.

Gallery

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The first family (Noah and his The Fall of Ixion, (1588) The Baptism of Christ (c.1588) Massacre of the Innocents
family) (c.1582–1592) (1590)

Hercules and Achelous (1590) The Holy Family (1590) Nun and Monk (1591) Christ the Redeemer, c. 1591.

Adam and Eve (1592) The Wedding of Peleus and Portrait of Pieter Jansz Kies Banquet of the Officers of the
Thetis, c. 1592-93 (1596) Company of St. George (1599)

Venus and Adonis (1614) Allegory of Vanity and The Good Samaritan (1627) (oil
Repentance (1616) (oil on on panel)
panel)

Notes
1. Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/18412) in the RKD
2. Slive, 8
3. Gijs Kruijtzer,Xenophobia in Seventeenth-Century India (http://hdl.handle.net/1887/13850) (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2009), 21

References
Seymour Slive, Dutch Painting, 1600–1800, Yale UP, 1995. ISBN 0-300-07451-4

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External links
Web Gallery of Art (http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/c/cornelis/biograph.html)
Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/haarlem_cornelis_cornelisz_van.html)
Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=866&page=1)

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