About Cornelis Engelsz.
Lived 1575 – 1650 (aged 74–75). Cornelis Engelsz. was a Dutch painter.
Presumed selfportrait of Cornelis Engelsz, 1612– Coll. of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg Cornelis Engelsz (1575–1650) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the father of Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck.
Biography Engelsz was born in Gouda. According to Houbraken, he was a pupil of Karel van Mander and a colleague of Frans Hals in Haarlem.
The Frans Hals Museum has several works by him and his son, the portrait painter Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Cornelis Cornelisz and he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1593 and was from 1594 to 1621 a member of the schutterij there that he painted in 1618. He died in Haarlem.
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Who was Cornelis Engelsz.?
painter from the Northern Netherlands (1575-1650)
When was Cornelis Engelsz. born?
Cornelis Engelsz. was born in 1575 in Gouda.
When did Cornelis Engelsz. die?
Cornelis Engelsz. died on 10 November 1650 in Haarlem.
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Cornelis Engelsz. was a painter.
What nationality was Cornelis Engelsz.?
Cornelis Engelsz. was Dutch.
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