Hendrik Frans de Cort
Hendrik de Cort or Hendrik Frans de Cort
Life
Hendrik de Cort studied in Antwerp under Henricus Josephus Antonissen and Willem Jacob Herreyns.[3] In 1770 he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke. When Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria travelled through the Austrian Netherlands in 1774 he appointed de Cort as his personal painter, possibly at the urging of Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, the then governor of the Austrian Netherlands.[4]
He moved to Paris after 1776. He was received (reçu) into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1779.[5] He became the ‘ordinary’ painter to the Prince de Condé for whom in 1781 he painted topographical views of the Château de Chantilly.[6]
De Cort returned to Antwerp in 1782. Here he was one of the founders in 1788 of a society of artists known as the Genootschap ter aanmoediging der Schoone Kunsten, known under its short form as the Konstmaatschappij (the 'Art Society').[7] Other founders included Balthasar Paul Ommeganck, Pieter Faes, Miss Herry, Jan Josef Horemans the Younger, Ferdinand Verhoeven, Hendrik Aarnout Myin, Frans Balthazar Solvyns, Mattheus Ignatius van Bree, Maria Jacoba Ommeganck, Marten Waefelaerts and many others. The purpose of the society was the promotion and appreciation of the artworks of its various members in an informal setting.
De Cort would not remain a member of the society for long as he left Flanders after the
He died in London.
Work
De Cort's work consists solely of landscape and topographical paintings and drawings. His early landscapes from the time before he moved to England were often made in collaboration with other Flemish artists such as Balthasar Paul Ommeganck and Petrus Johannes van Regemorter who painted the figures and animals.
De Cort is known for his topographical views of English and Welsh landscapes. These were painted in an Italianate idiom indebted to the style of
He would adjust some of the details of his landscape subjects for maximum effect. For instance, in his Launceston Castle, Cornwall he painted the main towers and buildings as protruding from behind, even where they would not normally have been visible from this viewpoint.[9]
To complete his many commissions de Cort travelled far and wide and made many preparatory wash drawings. A number of these are in the collections of the
References
- ^ Also known as: Hendrik Jozef Frans de Cort, Hendrik Jozef Cort, Hendrik Jozef Frans De Cort, Hendrik Joseph Frans de Cort and Hendrik Frans Decort
- ^ a b c Richard Green. "Cort, Hendrik Frans de." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 Nov. 2014
- ^ a b Hendrik de Cort at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
- ^ Reginald Howard Wilenski, Flemish Painters: 1430–1830, Viking Press, 1960, p. 390
- ^ Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Descriptive Catalogue, I. Ancient Masters, Museum Committee, Antwerp, 1905, p. 65
- ^ Reginald Howard Wilenski, Flemish Painters: 1430–1830, Viking Press, 1960, p. 399
- ^ a b Reginald Howard Wilenski, Flemish Painters: 1430–1830, Viking Press, 1960, p. 418
- ^ Hendrik Frans de Cort, Charlton House from the West Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine at vads
- ^ Hendrik Frans de Cort, Launceston Castle Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine at vads
External links
Media related to Hendrik Frans de Cort at Wikimedia Commons