Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), 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 an ...
painter and engraver.
Biography
Bloemaert was born at
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Nethe ...
. He studied with his father,
Abraham Bloemaert, his brothers
Hendrick and
Adriaan, and his father's pupil,
Gerard van Honthorst. Though originally trained as a painter, he devoted himself primarily to printmaking, which he learned from
Crispijn van de Passe
Crispijn van de Passe the Elder, or de Passe (c. 1564, Arnemuiden – buried 6 March 1637, Utrecht) was a Dutch publisher and engraver and founder of a dynasty of engravers comparable to the Wierix family and the Sadelers, though mostly at a ...
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