Discover print artist, draftsperson Cornelis Galle (II)

Qualifications: print artist, draftsperson

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish

Born: Antwerp (city) 1615-02-13/1615-02-23
christened on 23 February

Deceased: Antwerp (city) 1678-10-18
his wife died two days earlier; both buried in the choir of St. Joris Church, Antwerp (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, p. 100-101, note 2

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Cornelis Galle I and Anne van der Motte. Married on December 23, 1641 Françoise Nys, natural daughter of Jacob Nys (legitimized in Brussels in July 1657) (Messager 1858), she died 16 October 1678 in Antwerp, and was buried in the choir of St. Joris Church; father of Cornelis Galle III (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 2, p. 100-101, note 4)

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2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
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Antwerpen (stad) 1638-09-18 - 1678
‘wijnmeester’ (son of a master) in the Guild between 18 September 1638 and 18 September 1639; accepted as a member of the Sodality of the Unmarried Men of Age (‘Sodaliteit van de bejaerde jongmans’) in October 1639 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, p. 100-101, note 2). On 10 March 1661 he and his wife Francoise Nijs made their will, being of sound health. They live in 'Den Gulden Stoel', Lange Gasthuisstraat (van Hemeldonck 2007)
Brussel 1657-07
In July 1657 Galle's wife was legitimized in Brussels on the request of both man and wife (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, p. 100-101, note 2)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Galle, Cornelis (I)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Galle, Cornelis (III)
Pitau, Nicolaes (I)
Wtenbrouck, Matheus

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: Christian religious scene

Product: devotional print

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Antwerpen)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Antwerp 1857/1863
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 2, 100, 101, 174, 183, 194, 199,202, 212, 221, 232, 254, 266, 274, 283, 290, 300, 309, 322, 333, 344, 351, 354, 360, 368, 377, 383, 393, 399, 407, 408, 413, 425, 431, 442, 448, 457, 464, 465
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 13 (1920), p. 106
Van Heurck 1930 (Images de dévotion) , p. 58
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 7 [1952], p. 62-72
Witt Checklist 1978
Duverger 1984-2004 , vol. 8 (1995), p. 211-212 no. 2413
Thijs 1993 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 48 (2006), p. 8
Verheggen 2006 , p. 189, 278
Diels 2009 , passim

Le Messager des Sciences historiques des Arts et de la Bibliographie de Belgique (1858), p. 236
K.L. Bowen, 'Workshop practices in Antwerp: The Galles', Print Quarterly 26 (2009), p. 123-142
K. Bowen and D. Imhof, 'Exchanges between friends and relatives, artists and their patrons. The correspondence between Cornelis Galle I and II and Balthasar Moretus I', In Monte Artium. Journal of the Royal Library of Belgium 3 (2010), p. 88-113
K.L. Bowen, 'Declining wages for the printing of book illustrations: arrangements between the Galle family of printmakers and the managers of the "Officina Plantiniana" in seventeenth-century Antwerp', Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis. Bijzonderlijk van het aloude Hertogdom Brabant 87 (2004), p. 63-85
G. van Hemeldonck, Kunst en kunstenaars (typescript 2007), Felix Archive, Antwerp , no. S-1378 (online)

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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