Cornelis Holsteyn (1618 – 2 December 1658) was a
Dutch Golden Age painter from
Haarlem
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Biography
According to the RKD he was a painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations, trained by his father
Pieter Holsteyn I.
[Cornelis Holsteyn]
in the RKD According to Houbraken, his father was a glass painter, and thus was trained for glass painting, but the market in glass painting not being what it was, he turned his hand to painting canvas. Houbraken felt he received less for a painting than he deserved, because his work was of a very high quality. He describes a ''Triumph of Bacchus'', and a ''Lycurgus'', which was painted for the Amsterdam Orphanage.
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