Cornelis Kick

Still life with silver bowl. Private collection.

Cornelis Kick (bapt. 12 March 1634, Amsterdam – 18 June 1681, Amsterdam^[1]) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Kick was trained by his father, the painter Simon Kick (1603-1652), who painted prestigious schuttersstukken. Cornelis Kick is recorded as a painter from 1650^[2] and specialized in flower still lifes in the manner of Jan Davidsz de Heem. His students were Elias van den Broeck (1650-1708) and Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727).

According to Houbraken, he married the daughter of a pawnbroker, whose father had a garden outside the St Anthony's gate of Amsterdam. It was here that he painted flowers from nature with his student Jakob van Walskapel, until the expansion of the city forced him to move the garden further eastwards to Diemen, whereupon Walskapel left his service and moved to Loenen^[3].

References

1. ^ Kick, Cornelis at the RKD databases
2. ^ Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
3. ^ Kornelis Kik biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

• Cornelis Kick on Artnet

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Name	Kick, Cornelis
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Date of birth	12 March 1634
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Date of death	18 June 1681
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