Cornelis van Haarlem

Cornelis van Haarlem
Self-portrait (c. 1588–1590)
Born	Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem 1562 Haarlem, Habsburg Netherlands
Died	11 November 1638 (aged 75–76) Haarlem, Dutch Republic
Nationality	Dutch
Style	Northern Mannerism

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a

When his parents fled Haarlem, as the Spanish army laid siege to the city in 1573 during the Eighty Years' 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

Together with Carel van Mander,

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  The first family (Noah and his family) (c.1582–1592)
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  The Fall of Ixion, (1588)
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  The Baptism of Christ (c.1588)
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  Massacre of the Innocents (1590)
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  Hercules and Achelous (1590)
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  The Holy Family (1590)
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  Nun and Monk (1591)
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  Christ the Redeemer, c. 1591.
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  Adam and Eve (1592)
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  The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, c. 1592-93
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  Portrait of Pieter Jansz Kies (1596)
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  Banquet of the Officers of the Company of St. George (1599)
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  Venus and Adonis (1614)
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  Allegory of Vanity and Repentance (1616) (oil on panel)
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  The Good Samaritan (1627) (oil on panel)

Notes

References

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

• Media related to Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem at Wikimedia Commons
• Web Gallery of Art
• Artcyclopedia
• Getty Museum