Discover painter, draftsperson, mouth and foot painting artist Cornelis Ketel

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: Ketel, Cornelis Goverstz.
Ketel de Jonge, Cornelis Goverts
Ketel, Cornelis (II)

Monogram: CK
CKF

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, mouth and foot painting artist, sculptor, poet

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Gouda (place) 1548-03-18

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1616-08-05
buried on 8 August in Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Ketel was the natural child of Elisabeth Jacobsdr Ketel and art collector Govert Jans van Proyen. His father was related to Wouter Crabeth. He married 1) in 1574 in London Aeltje Gerritsdr (died 1606), also from Gouda; the couple had three children who were baptized in London: Gedeon (1576–1579), Ezechiell (b. 1578), and Eve (b. 1579). The latter two had died by 28 February 1595, as was another son, Rafel, who was born in Amsterdam in 1581. A further son, Andries, died before November 1613 (Hearn 2004) an married 2) in Amsterdam on 4 October 1607 Aeltje Jansdr.

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108 hits in RKDimages as artist
11 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
206 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
6 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Delft (stad) 1565
c. 1565 apprentice of of Anthonie Blocklandt
Parijs 1566
had to return to the Spanish Netherlands because of an edict that commanded temporary residents to return home (Hearn 2004)
Fontainebleau 1566 - 1567
returned to Paris and Fontainebleau after only a short while
Gouda (plaats) 1567 - 1573
Londen (Engeland) 1573 - 1581
married here; worked as a portraitist for 8 years (Luijten et al. 1993). He initially resided in Southwark with the Netherlandish sculptor William Cure (Willem Keur), a friend of his uncle. Later on the family lived in Bishopsgate, near Crosby Place in the City of London (Hearn 2004).
Amsterdam (stad) 1581 - 1616
c. 1584 Ketel made a 'portrait historié' of Rutger Jansz. for Hans Ophoghen from Amsterdam, as 'een opsiende Paulus' (Saint Paul, looking up to heaven); for Hans's brother Thomas, living in Danzig, he made a replica of this painting, together with five other life-size paintings of martyrs from the Old and the New Testament (Gerson 1942/1983, p. 499). He seems to have been a cripple since c. 1610: he already started to paint with his fingers and toes since 1599 (Luijten et al. 1993).

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Connections with other artists

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.: Blocklandt van Montfoort, Anthonie
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.: Crabeth, Wouter (II)
Isaacsz, Pieter
Oseryn, Isaac
Smissaert, Gillis
Voort, Cornelis van der

His first teacher was his uncle Cornelis Ketel sr. (Luijten et al. 1993).
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Boel, Cornelis

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.: history (genre), portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 11 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Mander 1604 , fol. 274v -275r
Baldinucci 1681-1728/1725-1730/1974-1975 , vol. 3, p. 200-204
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 178; vol. 2 (1719), p. 81; vol. 3 (1721), p. 78 (as: Korn. Ketel, Kornelis Ketel)
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1, p. 158-161
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 10 (1862), p. 142-143 (as: Cornelis Ketel)
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1. (1876), p. 157-160 (as: Cornelius Ketel)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 6 (1884-1887), p. 100-106 (N. Scheltema, 'Bijzonderheden aangaande den schilder en dichter Cornelis Ketel')
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 260-261, vol. 3 (1911), p. 51
Bredius 1915-1921 , vol. 3 (1917), p. 936-941
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 20 (1927), p. 218-220
Molhuysen/Blok et al. 1911-1937 , vol. 8 (1930), kol. 966-967
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 368, 377, 378, 389
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 9 [1953], p. 241
Strong 1969B , p. 11,13, 49, 151-158
Witt Checklist 1978
Filedt Kok/Halsema-Kubes/Kloek 1986 , p. 442 (R.E.O. Ekkart, biografie)
Waterhouse 1988 , p. 150-151
Luijten et al. 1993 , p. 308
Hearn 1995 , p. 108-112
Turner et al. 1996 , vol. 17, p. 923-924 (text: R.E.O. Ekkaert)
Stewart/Cutten 1997 , p. 286-287
Kollmann 2000 , p. 223
Levert 2017A , passim, Dossier prosopographique
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (I), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 55-80; p. 74-75
L. Cust, 'Notes on pictures in the Royal Collections-XXIV. On some portraits by Cornelis Ketel', The Burlington Magazine 22 (1912), p. 88-94
Th. von Frimmel, ‘Zum allegorisierendes Bildnis des Theophrastus Paracelsus im Wiener Hofmuseum’, Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde, 2/5-6 (1916), p. 98-100
W. Stechow, 'Cornelis Ketels Einzelbildnisse', Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst 63 (1929-1930), p. 200-206
W. Stechow, ‘Notes and reviews: Homo bulla’, Art Bulletin 20 (1938), p. 227-2288
J.R. Judson, 'A new insight into Cornelis Ketel's method of portraiture', Master Drawings 1 (1963), p. 38-41
J. Schouten, 'Cornelis Ketel en Gouda', Oud Holland 79 (1964), p. 122-125
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Enkele adressen van zestiende eeuwse kunstschilders', Maandblad Amstelodamum 74 (1987), p. 1-7; p. 6
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Het koopcontract van het huis van mr. Cornelis Ketel', Maandblad Amstelodamum 74 (1987), p. 51
T. Schulting, review of Heezen-Stoll 1987', Oud Holland 103 (1989), p. 51-60
T. Schulting, 'Hendrick Goltzius en Cornelis Ketel: 'hertsen vrienden'?', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 42/43 (1991/1992), p. 455-480
T. Schulting, ‘Cornelis Ketel en de gebroeders Wachendorff: geschiedenis van een identificatie’, De Nederlandische Leeuw 114 (April–May 1997), p. 135-166
T. Schulting, 'Cornelis Ketel en zijn familie: een revisie', Oud Holland 108 (1994), p. 171-207, esp. p. 180-182.
T. Schulting, '"Sterckheyt van Wijsheyt en Voorsichticheyt verwonnen": Overwegingen bij een allegorie van Cornelis Ketel', Oud Holland 111 (1997), p. 153-162
N. Galley, 'Nicolaas Ketel: A Painter without a Brush', Artibus et Historiae. An Art Anthology 49 (2004), p. 87-100
K. Hearn in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
H. Battjes, 'Het netwerk van Hendrik de Keyser, rederijker en lootjesverkoper', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 99 (2007), p. 80-133; p. 116-117
H. P. Chapman, 'Cornelis Ketel, fingerpainter and poet-painter', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 59 (2009), p. 249-273
K. Hearn, ‘Merchant class portraiture in Tudor London: “Customer” Smith’s Commission, 1579/80’, in: O. Dimitrieva, T. Murdoch (eds.), Treasures of the Royal Courts: Tudors, Stuarts and the Russian Tsars: Tudors, Stuarts & the Russian Tsars, London (Victorian & Albert Museum) 2013, p. 36-43
E. Town, ‘A biographical dictionary of London painters, 1547-1625’, The Walpole Society, 76 (2014), p. 121-122, 214 notes 1792-1806
K. Hearn, '"To Russia and Muscovia …": Thomas Smith’s Family and its International Network', in: Emerging Empires: England and Muscovy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages), Moscow/ London 2015, p. 33-39
N. Blackwood, 'Meta Incognita. Some hypotheses on Cornelis Ketel's lost English and Innuit portraits', Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 66 (2016), p. 28-52

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