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Cornelis de Man (1 July 1621, in
in the RKD He was well-received in Paris at the outset of his travels, but set off in the Spring for
Whale-oil factory
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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
Cats in Cornelis de Man's Art {{DEFAULTSORT:Man, Cornelis de 1621 births 1706 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft Painters from Delft
Cornelis de Man (1 July 1621, in Delft
Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolita ...
– 1 September 1706, in Delft) was a Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and art and ...
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 Guild of St. Luke in 1642 and ultimately travelled to Italy.Cornelis de Manin the RKD He was well-received in Paris at the outset of his travels, but set off in the Spring for
Lyon
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in order to cross Lombardia and the mountains before another winter set in. He settled for two years in Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
, where he had a rich patron, but finally stayed the longest in Rome
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. On the way back home he stopped in Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
, and in the end was gone for a total of nine years.
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.
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 AmsterdamDutch East India Company
The United East India Company ( nl, Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, the VOC) was a chartered company established on the 20th March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies into the first joint-stock ...
. This unusual painting was a studio reconstruction of the factory in Spitsbergen
Spitsbergen (; formerly known as West Spitsbergen; Norwegian: ''Vest Spitsbergen'' or ''Vestspitsbergen'' , also sometimes spelled Spitzbergen) is the largest and the only permanently populated island of the Svalbard archipelago in northern Nor ...
, based on a Danish original. He added all sorts of arctic details to this painting, though he never traveled further north than Denmark.(
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Ste ...
), retrieved 30-aug-09
References
External links
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
Cats in Cornelis de Man's Art {{DEFAULTSORT:Man, Cornelis de 1621 births 1706 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft Painters from Delft