Cornelis De Bie (1621–1664)
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Cornelis de Bie (c. 1621 – 1664), was a
Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands which roughly lasted from 1588, when the Dutch Republic was established, to 1672, when the '' Rampjaar'' occurred. During this period, Dutch trade, scientific development ...
painter.


Biography

His birth date and place are not known but his father was reported in
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
. He should not be confused with the 17th century
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author
Cornelis de Bie Cornelis de Bie (10 February 1627 – ) was a Flemish '' rederijker'', poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish ...
whose chief work is the volume of artist biographies entitled
Het Gulden Cabinet or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie. It was published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist ...
. It is not clear who his teacher was.
Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, ; ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate thei ...
has been mentioned as a possibility but this is not generally accepted and he may have trained in Amsterdam. He referred to himself a painter as early as 1642 and married in 1649. He acquired citizenship of Amsterdam in 1650.Cornelis de Bie
at the
Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in document ...
He was a cousin of
Hendrick ten Oever Hendrick ten Oever (1639 – 1716), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography He was born in Zwolle as the son of David ten Oever and Marijke Molkenbuer.Johann Heinrich and
Theodor Roos Theodor Roos (1638–1698) was a German Baroque painter of historical scenes. Biography He was born in Wesel. His family left their home in the Palatinate c. 1637, fleeing the Thirty Years War, and moved to Amsterdam around 1640. There, from 164 ...
.Theodor Roos Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by
Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...
He died in Amsterdam.


Work

He is mainly known for italianate landscapes. He was, however, a versatile painter, and also painted
genre scenes Genre art is the pictorial representation in any of various media of scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic settings, interiors, parties, inn scenes, work, and street scenes. Such representations (also called genre works, ...
, biblical and mythological subjects as well as typical indoor scenes such as card players.


References


Links

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Cornelis de Bie
on
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