David van der Plas (11 December 1647 – 18 May 1704), was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...
portrait painter.
Biography
David van der Plas became famous as a portrait painter, and his most illustrious patron was
Cornelis Tromp.
[David van der Plaas 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 painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Life
Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...
, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature In 1684 he married Cornelia van der Gon of
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, the daughter of the
castellan
A castellan is the title used in Medieval Europe for an appointed official, a governor of a castle and its surrounding territory referred to as the castellany. The title of ''governor'' is retained in the English prison system, as a remnant o ...
(kastelein) of the ''Oude Doelen'', the meeting quarters of the Haarlem ''
schutterij'' (the building currently houses the
Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem
The Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem (Haarlem Public Library) is a collective name
for all public libraries in the Haarlem area of the
Netherlands. The first ''public'' library of Haarlem opened in 1921 at the
cloisters of the Haarlem City Hall where th ...
).
[David van der Plas]
in the RKD David van der Plas' brother-in-law was the painter
Govert van der Leeuw and his pupil was
Jacob Appel.
His wife
Cornelia van der Gon
Cornelia van der Gon (1644 – 1701) was an owner of a show-dollhouse that attracted a following in Amsterdam in the 17th century.
She was born in Haarlem as the daughter of the kastelein of the Stadsdoelen (today the Stadsbibliotheek Haarle ...
was the rich heiress of the Amsterdam architect Adriaan Dortsman (ca. 1636-1682), who designed the
round Lutheran church on the
Singel. The marriage was childless, and Cornelia spent her time on her doll houses, which Dortsman had helped design and which Van der Plas helped decorate. The landscape painter
Jan Wijnants also painted miniatures for these doll houses. Cornelia died in 1701, and after the death of Van der Plas, the doll houses were sold at auction to
Sara Rothé
Sara Rothé (1699–1751) was an 18th-century art collector from the Northern Netherlands, known today as the former owner of two dollhouses now on display in the Frans Hals Museum and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
Biography
In the early 18th cen ...
, who used them to decorate her own doll houses. One of these doll houses can be seen in the
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and the other one can be seen in the
Frans Hals Museum.
Cornelia van der Gon profile
inghist.nl (Institute of Dutch History webpage); accessed 16 June 2015.
References
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1647 births
1704 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Amsterdam