Cornelis Engelsz

Old man accepting alms

Cornelis Engelsz (1575, Gouda – 1650, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the father of Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck.

Biography

Portret van Floris van Schoterbosch, 1618

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Karel van Mander and a colleague of Frans Hals in Haarlem.^[1]

The Frans Hals Museum has several works by him and his son, the portrait painter Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck. According to the RKD he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1593 and was from 1594-1621 a member of the schutterij there that he painted in 1618.^[2]

References

1. ^ (Dutch) Karel van Mander eulogy in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. ^ Cornelis Engelsz in the RKD

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Name	Engelsz, Cornelis
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Date of birth	1575
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Date of death	1650
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