Amsterdam
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– 18 June 1681, in AmsterdamKick, Cornelis at then RKD databases) was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
Kick was trained by his father, then painter
Simon Kick
Simon Kick (1603, Delft – 1652, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was the son of the Delft varnish worker Willem Kick.schuttersstukken''. Cornelis Kick is recorded as a painter from 1650Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie /ref> and specialized in flower
still life
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s, in then manner of his teacher
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Jan Davidsz. de Heem or in-full ''Jan Davidszoon de Heem'', also called ''Johannes de Heem'' or ''Johannes van Antwerpen'' or ''Jan Davidsz de Hem'' (c. 17 April 1606 in Utrecht – before 26 April 1684 in Antwerp), was a still life painter w ...
. He married Cornelia Spaeroogh on 5 May 1661, and married a second time with Maghteltje Dirkx of Leiden on 16 December 1674. His pupils were
Elias van den Broeck
Elias van den Broeck (1649, in Antwerp – buried 6 February 1708, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
Biography
According to the RKD, in 1665 he became a pupil of Cornelis Kick in Amsterdam, and in 1669 he became a pupil of ...
Digital library for Dutch literature
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It was here that he painted flowers from nature with his student ''Jakob van Walskapel'', until the expansion of the city in 1657-1663 claimed the land the garden was on and so forced him to move his garden further eastwards to the new
polder
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called Diemermeer. When Kick got it into his head to move to Loenen in 1667 however, Walskapel left his service and moved back to Amsterdam, where he took up another profession and was still living at the time Houbraken was writing (he was probably Houbraken's source).
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