Cornelis de Man
Cornelis de Man (1 July 1621, in Delft – 1 September 1706, in Delft) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
As a young man, Kornelis was not satisfied with life in Delft. He wanted to travel beyond the port of Dordrecht and that is what he did, spending a year in Paris as soon as he came of age and had enough talent to pay his way with his painting skills.
According to the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) he became a member of the Delft
He was back in 1653 and stayed in Delft, where he created genre works that are reckoned to be "of the "Pieter de Hooch" school.[1]
Career in Delft
He became a successful painter in Delft, painting a prestigious group portrait for the Anatomy guild there, as well as a renowned painting for the Amsterdam Noordsche Compagnie, a northern branch of the Amsterdam Dutch East India Company. This unusual painting was a studio reconstruction of the factory in Spitsbergen, based on a Danish original. He added all sorts of arctic details to this painting, though he never traveled further north than Denmark.[3]
References
- ^ RKD
- Digital library for Dutch literature
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), retrieved 30-aug-09
External links
Media related to Cornelis de Man at Wikimedia Commons
- Cornelis de Man at PubHist
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Cornelis de Man
- [1] Cats in Cornelis de Man's Art