Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Cornelis Saftleven

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: Sachtleven, Cornelis
Zachtleven, Cornelis

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors)

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Gorinchem (place) 1607
Wiersum 1931

Deceased: Rotterdam (city) 1681-06-01
He was buried on 5 June 1681 in the French Protestant Church (Wiersum 1931)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Herman Saftleven (c. 1580-1627) and Lyntge Cornelisdr Moelants (died 1625). Brother of Herman Saftleven (1609-1685). He married in Rotterdam to 1) Catharina Dircx van der Heyden (died 1654) on 18 November 1648, 2) Elisabeth Melchiors van Avont (1619-1695), also in Rotterdam, on 29 September 1655.

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Rubens painted staffage on four paintings by Saftleven (Denuncé 1932, p. 69); in 1634 he painted, together with his brother Herman, a family portrait at Castle Haarzuylen, near Utrecht (City) (Thieme/Becker 1935).

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12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
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Rotterdam (stad) 1632
c. 1632; in 1629 he lived in his parent's house on the Delftse Vaart (Schadee 1994, p. 295)
Antwerpen (stad) 1632 - 1634
c. 1632; before 1637 Rubens painted figures in Saftleven's paintings (Denuncé 1931, p. 25); when Rubens died in 1640 there were eight Saftlevens in his collection, of which Rubens painted figures in four (Denuncé 1932, p. 69).
Utrecht (stad) 1635 - 1637
c. 1635-1637; Saftleven's visit to his brother Herman in Utrecht was probably short (Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 175)
Rotterdam (stad) 1637 - 1681
in 1640 he lived in Lombardstraat; from 1648 until 1681 on the Franse Water (Schadee 1994, p. 295); in 1667 dean of the Guild (Tissink/De Wit 1987, p. 84)

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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.: Saftleven, Herman (ca. 1580-1627)
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.: Beauvois, Carel de
Hondius, Abraham
Jongh, Ludolf de
Poel, Egbert Lievensz. van der
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.: Camphuysen, Godefridus
Sorgh, Hendrick Martensz.
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Brouwer, Adriaen
Teniers, David (II)

observed by Houbraken 1718
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Barlow, Francis
Bilcoq, Marie Marc Antoine
Wijntrack, Dirck

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.: peasant genre, genre, landscape (genre), portrait, Christian religious scene, still life, beach scene, winter landscape, animal painting (genre), architecture (genre), interior view, farm still life

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Rotterdam)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 342-343; vol. 2 (1719), p. 33 (as: Kornelis Zachtleven)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 548 (as: Cornelis Saftleven, also Sachtleven)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 29 (1935), p. 309 (as: Saftleven, Cornelis)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 281 (as:)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 407
Hairs 1977 , p. 20-21
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 270 (as: Saftleven, Sachtleven or Zachtleven, Cornelis)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 23 [1980], p. 111-118 (as:)
Sutton 1984 , p. 74
Tissink/De Wit 1987 , p. 84
Schadee 1994 , p. 295-296
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , passim
Saur 1999-2000 (as: Saftleven, Cornelis)
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 175 (as: Cornelis SAFTLEVEN)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Een spotteekening van Cornelis Saftleven op de Dordtsche Synode', Oud-Holland 15 (1897), p. 121-123
P. Haverkorn van Rijsewijk, 'De geboorteplaats van Cornelis Saftleven', Oud-Holland 17 (1899), p. 239-240
E. Wiersum, 'Cornelis Saftleven, geboren Gorcum in 1607, overleden Rotterdam in 1681', Rotterdamsch Jaarboekje (1931), p. 88-91
B.J.A. Renckens, 'Enkele notities bij vroege werken van Cornelis Saftleven', Bulletin Museum Boymans- van Beuningen 13 (1962), p. 59-74
N. Alting Mees, 'Aanteekeningen over oud-Rotterdamsche kunstenaars III', Oud-Holland 31 (1913), p. 241-268; p. 255-259
P.C. Sutton, 'Cornelis Saftleven 1607-1681, Leben und Werke', The Burlington Magazine 122 (1980), p. 263 (review of Schulz 1978)
A. Zwollo, 'Een 'Cornelis Saftleven' per brief', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987), p. 402-406
M.S. Lucas, 'Het heksengeloof verbeeld, 17de eeuwse voorstellingen in de Nederlanden', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1996), p. 91-140
R. van Dijk, in: Nieuwsbrief Stichting Gouden Eeuw Gorinchem, no. 3, Spring 2009 (as: born in Gorinchem, 1603) (http://www.goudeneeuw.org/nieuwsbrief3.html)
T. De Nile, 'Influssi nordici nelle Stregonerie di Salvator Rosa', in: S. Ebert-Schiffer et al. (eds.), Salvator Rosa e il suo tempo 1615-1673, Rome 2010, p. 139-158
W.W. Robinson, 'The Abrams Album: An Album Amicorum of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 3-58

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Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)

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Creation date: 1992-01-25; Last modified date: 2023-08-14

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