Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or ''Cornelis Pietersz Begijn'' (1631/32 – 27 August 1664) was a

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painter and engraver. Bega was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith Pieter Jansz. Begijn. His mother Maria was the illegitimate daughter of the Haarlem painter

Cornelis van Haarlem Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. Biograph ...

.Cornelis Pietersz Bega
in the

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He assumed the name ''Bega'' when he started working professionally. He was a student of Adriaen van Ostade, and produced genre scenes of similar subjects, typically groups of a few peasant figures, often in interior settings, or fanciful figures such as ''The Alchemist'' (Malibu) or '' The Astrologer'' (London). From 1653 to 1654 he traveled by horse and boat on a Grand Tour with fellow painters Dirk Helmbreker, Vincent van der Vinne and Guillam Dubois through

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. This trip was recorded in Vincent van der Vinne's diaries and gives an accurate view of the art in the cities they visited in those times.Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne; Bert Sliggers, Jr. (forward).
Dagelijckse aentekeninge van Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne
' . 'Daily records of Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne'' Haarlem: Fibula-Van Dishoeck; 1979 ited October 8, 2011 . His dated works begin in 1652, and in 1654 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke, dying only ten years later, which according to Houbraken was due to the plague.Roy Bolton
''Old Master Paintings & Drawings''
. "Cornelis Pietersz. Bega ''A Standing Soldier, seen from Behind''". London: Sphinx Books; 2009 ited October 8, 2011 . pp. 356–357. He was close friends with the Haarlem painter Leendert van der Cooghen. When he died he was buried in the grave of his grandfather Cornelis van Haarlem.

References

* Neil MacLaren, ''Catalogue of the Dutch School, 1600–1900 (National Gallery (Great Britain)//National Gallery Catalogues) (Vol 1)''. London: National Gallery. (hardcover). (paperback, 1994).
Kornelis Bega 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 ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature.

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