Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet

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Hendrick Cornelisz van Vliet (1611/1612, Delft - buried October 28 1675, Delft) was a Dutch painter. He studied under Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt and Willem van der Vliet (an uncle) and was admitted to the painters guild in Delft in 1632. Van Vliet started out painting portraits. Around 1651, he took up architectural painting, particularly the painting of church interiors. Earlier, architectural painting had been pioneered by Pieter Saenredam, who introduced innovative techniques of perspective. By mid century, architectural painting gained great popularity. Among the churches painted by Van Vliet are the "Pieterskerk" (Peter's Church) in Leiden, the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Delft, and the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Delft (Van Vliet would be buried in the latter in 1675). Emanuel de Witte (witness his "Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft," 1650-1652, now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and Gerard Houckgeest, both contemporary painters of church interiors, also worked in Delft, at least for some time. Nowadays, the paintings of Van Vliet can be seen at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and in many other places.

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* [http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=81475 Hendrick van Vliet at the Netherlands Institute for Art History]

External links

* [http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-1971&lang=en Van Vliet at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam]
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoom
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