Cornelis Sebille Roos or Cornelis Roos (1754 – 1820) was a Dutch art dealer and inspector of the Nationale Konst-Gallery collection in
Huis ten Bosch
Huis ten Bosch (, ; ) is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.
Huis ten Bosch was th ...
during the years 1799-1801
Roos was born 10 January 1754 in
Amsterdam
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and baptized six days later in the Walloon church. He became a drawing teacher and manager of
Felix Meritis
Felix Meritis ("Happy through Merit") is the name of an intellectual society in Amsterdam, but subsequently used for the building they built for themselves on the Keizersgracht.
History
It was built according to a winning design by the arc ...
, which he helped found.
In 1798 he lived in the left-hand side of the
Trippenhuis
The Trippenhuis is a neoclassical canal mansion in the centre of Amsterdam. It was built in 1660–1662 for the wealthy Amsterdam weapons traders Louis and Hendrick Trip. Many references to weaponry can be seen on its facade. Since 1887 it has be ...
where he started his art dealership. Many of the paintings he originally purchased have found their way into the collection of the
Rijksmuseum
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 S ...
. He was friends with
Jan Gildemeester and attended the estate sale of his art collection, buying many pieces there that later found their way in the Huis ten Bosch collection. The most notable of these was ''
'' by
Jan Asselijn
Jan Asselijn ( 1610 – October 1, 1652) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Asselijn was born at Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe from a French Huguenot family as ''Jean Asselin''. He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde (158 ...
, which became the first painting purchased by the director of the Nationale Konst-Gallery,
Alexander Gogel
Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel (10 December 1765 – 13 June 1821) was a Dutch politician, who was the first minister of finance of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland.
Early years
Gogel was born in Vught, the son of Johan Martin G ...
. The painting, which is not dated, was painted before the events which caused it to be marked. It was marked to make it a political allegory of the patriot hero
Johan de Witt
Johan de Witt (24 September 1625 – 20 August 1672) was a Dutch statesman and mathematician who was a major political figure during the First Stadtholderless Period, when flourishing global trade in a period of rapid European colonial exp ...
who was murdered by orangists. Since Roos was known for his
patriotic
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politics, it is quite possible that he marked the painting himself when he bought it in 1800, though the estate sale catalog already mentions that it is an allegory of Johan de Witt.
[Catalog entry at 1800 purchase]
for ''Een Levensgrote Zwaan in een Landschap''
National art gallery
The Nationale Konst-Gallery opened in
Huis ten Bosch
Huis ten Bosch (, ; ) is a royal palace in The Hague, Netherlands. It is one of three official residences of the Dutch monarch; the two others being the Noordeinde Palace in The Hague and the Royal Palace of Amsterdam.
Huis ten Bosch was th ...
in 1800 but moved after the government changeover in 1805 to make room for the new inhabitant of Huis ten Bosch,
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
Rutger Jan, Count Schimmelpenninck (31 October 1761 – 15 February 1825), Lord of Nyenhuis, Peckedam and Gellicum, was a Dutch jurist, ambassador and politician who served as Grand Pensionary of the Batavian Republic from 1805 to 1806. Histori ...
. The collection was moved to the former
Prince William V Gallery
The Prince William V Gallery is an art gallery on the Buitenhof (The Hague), Buitenhof in The Hague that currently shares an entrance with the Gevangenpoort museum. It is a recreation of the original gallery ''Galerij Prins Willem V'', once founde ...
, now part of the museum known as the
Gevangenpoort
The Gevangenpoort (''Prisoner's Gate'') is a former gate and medieval prison on the Buitenhof in The Hague, Netherlands. It is situated next to the 18th-century art gallery founded by William V, Prince of Orange in 1774 known as the '' Prince Wil ...
. In 1808 it moved again according to the wishes of
Lodewijk Napoleon
Louis Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September 1778 – 25 July 1846) was a younger brother of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. He was a monarch in his own right from 1806 to 1810, ruling over the Kingdom of Holland (a French client sta ...
to the
former city hall of Amsterdam. Though Roos lived and worked in (
Huis met de Hoofden
The House with the Heads (known as 'Huis met de Hoofden' in Dutch) is a large canal house on the Keizersgracht 123 in Amsterdam, named after the six ornaments shaped as heads, which are on the façade. The house is a ''rijksmonument'' and is list ...
) Amsterdam, the position of inspector in Amsterdam was given to
Cornelis Apostool and Roos went back to his dealership. Roos became a member of the Royal Institute, predecessor to the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (, KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
In addition to various advisory a ...
, in 1808.
[ In 1815 this Royal Institute was united with Roos' art dealership as they were in both halves of the Trippenhuis. The entire building became the institute with the first floor devoted to the National Konst-Gallery.
Roos died in Amsterdam. He was married twice: in 1784 and 1801. His son Cornelis François Roos continued his art dealership and gallery after his death.Son's entry mentioning his father C.S. who did not have an entry himself]
in the NNBW
The ''Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek'' (''NNBW'') is a biographical reference work in the Dutch language. It was published in ten parts between 1911 and 1937 by Sijthoff, Leiden, and the editors were P. C. Molhuysen and P. J. Blok. ...
Art collection
File:Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt - Johan van Oldenbarnevelt.jpg, Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (; 14 September 1547 – 13 May 1619), Lord of the manor, Heer van Berkel en Rodenrijs (1600), Gunterstein (1611) and Bakkum (1613), was a Dutch statesman and revolutionary who played an important role in the Dutch rev ...
File:De bedreigde zwaan Rijksmuseum SK-A-4.jpeg,
File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 108.jpg, Portrait of Aechje Claesdr. Pesser
File:Gerrit Lamberts - Trippenhuis - Stadsarchief Amsterdam.jpg, Interior of the Trippenhuis with the national collection, during the period 1825-1885
References
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1754 births
1820 deaths
Art collectors from Amsterdam
Dutch art dealers
18th-century art collectors
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Curators from Amsterdam
Dutch art curators