Coenraet Waumans - Portrait of Cornelis van Poelenburch

Cornelis van Poelenburgh or Cornelis van Poelenburch (1594 – 12 August 1667),Cornelis van Poelenburch
in the

RKD 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 ...

was a

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landscape painter and draughtsman. He was the leading representative of the first generation of Dutch

landscape painters A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Diction ...

who were active in

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in the early 17th century. He was known for small-scale paintings depicting Italianate landscapes with small figures enacting biblical or mythological scenes or in contemporary attire.Nicolette C. Sluijter-Seijffert. "Poelenburch, Cornelis van." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 24 Aug. 2016

Life

His birthplace is unknown. A signed document survives in

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where he is listed as six years old and the son of Simon van Poelenburch, a Catholic canon in Utrecht. He initially trained with

Abraham Bloemaert Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving. He initially worked in the style of the " Haarlem Mannerists", but by the beginning of the 17th-century altered his style ...

, and his earliest signed paintings are from 1620. He traveled to Rome where he was influenced by

Adam Elsheimer Adam Elsheimer (18 March 1578 – 11 December 1610) was a German artist working in Rome, who died at only thirty-two, but was very influential in the early 17th century in the field of Baroque paintings. His relatively few paintings were sma ...

Kornelis Poelenburg 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 and became a founding member of the

Bentvueghels The Bentvueghels (Dutch for "Birds of a Feather") were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent ("painters' clique"). Activities The members, which incl ...

, the society of mainly Flemish and Dutch artists working in Rome. The Bentveughels would typically adopt a nickname referred to as the 'bent name'. Van Poelenburch's bentname was ‘satiro’ (‘Satyr’). He counted a few Roman cardinals under his patrons. He was called to England by

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, for whom he made small cabinet pieces. A warrant for payment of rent of a house in Orchard Street, Westminster, for the dwellings of Cornelis van Poelenburgh and

Alexander Keirincx Alexander KeirincxAlexander Keirincx
at the

. His "most important and successful" pupils were

Daniël Vertangen Daniel Vertangen (1601, Amsterdam – ca.1683, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Cornelis van Poelenburch.Dirck van der Lisse Dirck van der Lisse (6 August 1607, The Hague - buried 31 January 1669, The Hague) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Van der Lisse was born in The Hague. He learned to paint from Cornelis van Poelenburch, and later lived in Utrecht from ...

, François Verwilt, and Jan van Haensbergen.

claimed that his best pupil was Joan vander Lis from Breda (not Dirck van der Lisse, from The Hague). Houbraken then mentioned Vertangen, Verwilt, Warnard van Rysen from Bommel, and

Willem van Steenree Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Gu ...

, a nephew. The

also mentions Laurens Barata.

Work

He painted mostly small landscapes with mythical or religious figures or passages, in a style that would later be evident in some of the works of

Claude Lorraine Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in I ...

. His figures are often placed by classical ruins. His early work is similar in style to that of

Bartholomeus Breenbergh Bartholomeus Breenbergh (before 13 November 1598 – after 3 October 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of Italian and Italianate landscapes, in Rome (1619-1630) and Amsterdam (1630-1657). Biography Little is known of his early life. In his t ...

to the point that their paintings are sometimes difficult to tell apart.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Poelenburgh, Cornelis van 1594 births 1667 deaths Painters from Utrecht (city) Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch landscape painters Members of the Bentvueghels Painters of ruins