Discover draftsperson, pen artist, painter Cornelis Pronk

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: Pronck, Cornelis

Qualifications: draftsperson, pen artist, painter, miniaturist painter, copyist, designer, watercolorist

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1691-12-10

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1759-09-28/1759-09-29
28 or 29 October (Thieme Becker); Van Eynden en Van der Willigen: 28 September

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: brother of Aldert Pronk (1690-1770), to whom he left his drawings collection in 1759

This person/entity in other databases

348 hits in RKDimages as artist
25 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
10 hits in RKDlibrary as illustrator
1589 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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Amsterdam (stad) 1711 - 1759
ca. 1711-1759

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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.: Boonen, Arnold
Houten, Jan van (1679-1713)
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.: Beijer, Jan de
Buys, Jacobus
Haen, Abraham de (II)
Liender, Paulus van
Toorenburgh, Gerrit
Winter, Hendrik de
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.: Heyden, G.J.
Serrurier, Louis Philippus

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.: landscape (genre), winter landscape, portrait, architecture (genre), topography, interior view

Medium/technique: porcelain (material), oil paint
designs for porcelain (Scheen 1981)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 25 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Gool 1750-1751 , vol. 2, p. 193-198, 199, 369
Van Eynden/Van der Willigen 1816-1840 , vol. 2 (1817), p. 36-37
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 27 (1933), p. 421-422 (als Pronck (Pronk), Cornelis)
Mandle et al. 1971 , p. 81-82
Witt Checklist 1978
Scheen 1981 , p. 411-412 (as: Pronk, Cornelis;*)
Dumas 2015 , passim

J. de Hullu, 'De porceleinhandel der oost-indische compagnie en Cornelis Pronk als haar teekenaar', Oud-Holland 33 (1915), p. 50-62
P. Leendertz., 'Vier Gelderse geschiedschrijvers met teekenstift en penseel', Gelre. Bijdragen en mededelingen 29 (1926), p. 147-154
S.E. Pronk, ‘Cornelis Pronk en zijn reis van Amsterdam naar Kleef in juni 1731’, in: Pronkstukken. Mededelingenblad van de Stichting Familiearchief Pronk, nr. 6 (1974), december,139-155
Pronk-Stukken. Mededelingenblad van de Stichting Familiearchief Pronk, no. 12, April 1982 (spec. vol. by among others S.E. Pronk about the iconografie of Cornelis Pronk with a large number of portraits)
R.E.O. Ekkart, review of Pronk 1982, Oud Holland 98 (1984), p. 249-252
L.P. Kasteleyn, 'Korte handleiding bij het onderscheiden der tekeningen van Pronk en De Haen', in: H.W.M. van der Wyck and J. Enkelaar-Lagendijk, Overijsselse buitenplaatsen, Alphen aan de Rijn 1983, p. 168-171
L. Kasteleyn, ''Opdat de waarheid klaar in uwe tekening spele'. De topografische tekenkunst in de Republiek gedurende het tweede kwart van de 18de eeuw en de theorieën van Newton (I)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 6 (December 1991), p. 10-29
L. Kasteleyn, ''Opdat de waarheid klaar in uwe tekening spele'. De topografische tekenkunst in de Republiek gedurende het tweede kwart van de 18de eeuw en de theorieën van Newton (II)', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 7 (December 1991), p. 16-35
L. Kasteleyn, 'Een Pronkende Haen. Nieuwe toeschrijvingen van zes schetsboekjes van Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759) en Abraham de Haen (1707-1748) in het Rijksprentenkabinet', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 44 (1996), p. 91-119
A. Beenhakker, 'Cornelis Pronk en Abraham de Haan in Zeeland in 1729', Zeeland 9 (2000), p. 37-46
H.G. Scheltema, 'Heerde rond 1730: Andries Schoemaker en de tekeningen van Cornelis Pronk en Abraham de Haen', Heerde Historisch no. 108 (September 2003), p. 3-28
H.G. Scheltema, 'Pronk, Bentinck en Trembley: Schetsen uit achttiende-eeuws Den Haag', Jaarboek Die Haghe 2005, p. 30-51
H.G. Scheltema, 'Gezigten van Den Haag. Enkele aspecten van een serie schetsen van Cornelis Pronk uit 1741-1742', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 29 (2005), p. 13-41
E. Klück, 'Vier tekeningen van de buitenplaats Treslong door Cornelis Pronk', in: Ch. Dumas (ed.), Liber Amicorum Dorine van Sasse van Ysselt. Collegiale bijdragen over teken- en prentkunst, Den Haag 2011, p. 251-268
L.M. Schoemaker, 'Cornelis Pronk en Abraham de Haen in Zuid-Holland. Sporen van een tekenreis, mei 1730', in: E. Buijsen et al. (eds), Kunst op papier in de achttiende eeuw/Art on Paper in the Eighteenth Century. Liber Amicorum aangeboden aan Charles Dumas ter gelegenheid van zijn 65ste verjaardag, Zoetermeer 2014, p. 206-217

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