Discover painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter Cornelis van Poelenburch

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: Poelenborch, Cornelis van
Poelenburg, Cornelis van
Poelenburgh, Cornelis van
Brusco
Satyr
Satyr was his bent-name; He mostly spelled his name 'Van Poelenburch' (Sluijter-Seijffert 1984, p. 25).

Monogram: CP

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter, print artist, court painter, staffage painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Utrecht (city) 1594-01-21/1595-01-21
born between between 21 January 1594 and 21 January 1595, based on a document from January 21, 1601 in which it is stated that he was six years old in January 1601 (Bok 1985). Houbraken wrongly stated that he was born in 1586.

Deceased: Utrecht (city) 1667-08-12

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Symon van Poelenburch and Adriana Willemsdr. van Leerdam (born c. 1555). On 30 May 1629 he was married in Utrecht to Jacomina van Steenre (after 1607-after 1680)). the couple had at least five children: Adriana, Maria (died 1653), Simon, Christina and Jacobus (died 1662), one child died in 1635. Adriana van Poelenburch would marry Aernout, a son of Bartholomeus van Bassen (Sluijter-Seijffert 2016).

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Poelenburch collaborated with Herman Saftleven and painted figures in the landscapes of Alexander Keirincx, Jan Both, Guilliam de Heusch, Adam Willaerts, and possibly of Chaerles de Hooch; in interior scenes of Bartholomeus van Bassen, Dirck van Delen, Nicolaes de Ghiselaer and Hendrick van Steenwijck II; in still lifes with Philip van Thielen (Sluijter-Seijffert 2016, p. 27-28. and Appendix V, p. 284-288). Jan Gerritsz. van Bronckhorst made a few etchings after paintings by Poelenburch.

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693 hits in RKDimages as artist
9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1620 - 1667
his earliest signed painting is from 1620 (Sluijter-Seijffert 1986, p. 26); the earliest drawing is probably from a few years before that (Chong 1987)

Active in

Rome 1617 - 1620
The archival researcher Christiaan Kramm (1797-1875) was the first to mention that when in Rome, Poelenburch signed the album amoricum of Wybrand Symonsz de Geest (1592-c. 1661), a portrait painter from Leeuwarden. Poelenburch wrote the first out of five verses from the canzone dei baci (by Gianbattista Guarini): Baci soavi, e cari ... ending with: Cornelis van poelenburch in roomen 1617. Of course it is possible that Poelenburch arrived in Rome one or two years before. According to Sluijter-Seijffert he was one of the co-founders of the Schildersbent in 1623.
Florence 1620 - 1622-02
worked probably at the court of Cosimo II during these years; went back to Rome when Cosimo II died in February 1622 (Sluijter-Seijffert 2016, p. 21-22).
Rome 1622 - 1625
Utrecht (stad) 1625 - 1631
Parijs 1631
Utrecht (stad)
Londen (Engeland) 1637 - 1638
stay in England (1637-1641) with interruptions; appointed court painter of Charles I of England. In 1637 he lived in Acher Street, next to or in the same house as Jorge Geldorp (Von Wurzbach 1910). The king paid his rent of 50 pounds for a house in St. Anne's Street, Westminster, from 25 March 1637 to 25 March 1638 (Sluijter-Seijffert 2016, p. 24).
Utrecht (stad) 1638-08
Arnout van Buchel wrote in his diary that Poelenburch travelled back from Utrecht to England on 12 August 1638 (Van Campen 1940).
Londen (Engeland) 1638 - 1641
lived in 1639 in a house in Orchard Street: the rent was paid by Charles I. Poelenburch lived next to Christiaan van Vianen and Alexander Keirincx (Millar 1972; Sluijter-Seijffert 1984, p. 31, 164, note 43-44).
Utrecht (stad) 1642 - 1667
lived at the Oude Munsterkerkhof in Utrecht

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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.: Bloemaert, Abraham
Houbraken 1718
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.: Barata, Laurens
Bronchorst, Gerard van
Bronchorst, Jan van
Gelton, Toussaint
Haensbergen, Jan van
Hooch, Horatius de
Lijs, Jan van der
Lisse, Dirck van der
Rijsen, Warnard van
Vertangen, Daniel
Verwilt, François
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.: Cuylenborch, Abraham van (I)
Griffier, Jan (I)
Hulschar
Laeck, Reynier van der
Monogrammist JP
Riboldt, Wilcken
Saftleven, Herman
Steenre, Wouter van
Weeling, Anselmus
Wtenbrouck, Moyses van
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Baeck, Johannes
Compagno, Scipione
Court, Martinus de la
Cuyp, Aelbert
Gargiulo, Domenico
Kalraet, Barent van
Linsen, Jan
Saftleven, Herman
Taverner, William
Willaerts, Cornelis
Breenbergh, Bartholomeus

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), italianate, mythology, Christian religious scene, portrait, landscape (genre), architecture (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Bentvueghels

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 9 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Meyssens 1649
De Bie 1661-1662 , p. 256
Sandrart/Peltzer 1675/1925 , p. 157
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 128-130, 232, 369; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131, vol. 3 (1721), p. 360 (as: Kornelis Poelenburg, Poelenburgh)
Weyerman 1729-1769 , vol. 1, p. 333
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1, p. 342-343
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 5, p. 1295
Walpole et al. 1762/1876 (ed. Wornum) , vol. 1 (1876), p. 342-343 (as: Cornelius Poelenburg)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 336-338
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 457
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 27 (1933), p. 178-179 (as: Poelenburg, Cornelis van)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 257
Van Campen 1940 , p. 71
Gerson 1942/1983 , passim
Hoogewerff 1952 , assim
Millar 1972 , p. 85
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 17 (1976), p. 141-142
Witt Checklist 1978
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 402-410
Briganti et al. 1991 , p. 258
Spicer/Orr/Bok 1997 , p. 387-388
Kollmann 2000 , p. 252
Schatborn/Verberne 2001 , p. 57-65
Harwood et al. 2002 , p. 42-63 en 75
Vodret 2011 , p. 79, 268, no. 425
Buijsen/Dumas/Manuth 2012 , N.C. Sluijter-Seijffert, 'Cornelis van Poelenburch als portretschilder', p. 161-166
Sluijter-Seijffert 2016 , esp. p. 19-28 (biography)
Saur 1992- , vol. 96 (2017), p. 192 (text : U. Härting)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Het vriendenalbum van Wibrand Symonszoon de Geest”, Oud-Holland 7 (1889), p. 235-240
Th. von Frimmel, 'Cornelis Poelenburg und seine Nachahmer', Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde 1 (1913-1915), p. 102-105, p. 137-145; 2 (1915-1916), p. 101, ill. table XXIV
R. Grosse, 'Zum Werk des Adam Elsheimer', Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 4 (1950), p. 173-182
E. Schaar, 'Poelenburgh und Breenbergh in Italien und ein Bild Elsheimers', Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 9 (1959-1960), p. 25-54
M. Chiarini, 'Ipotesi sugli inizi di Cornelis van Poelenburgh', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23 (1972), p. 203-212
M.J. Bok, 'The date of Cornelis van Poelenburch's birth', Mercury 2 (1985), p. 9-11
A. Chong, 'The drawings of Cornelis van Poelenburgh', Master Drawings 25 (1987), p. 3-62
J. Wood, 'Orazio Gentileschi and some Netherlandish Artists in London; The Patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, Charles I and Henrietta Maria', Simiolus 28 (2000-2001), p. 107, 124 and passim
S. Janssens, 'Between Conflict and Recognition: the Bentvueghels', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (2001), p. 57-85
A. Goldgar, 'Poelenburch's garden: art, flowers, networks, and knowledge in seventeenth-century Holland', in: A. Golahny et al., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 183-192
N.C. Sluijter-Seiffert, 'The school of Cornelis van Poelenburch', in: A. Golahny et al., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 441-454
N.C. Sluiter-Seijffert and M. Wolters, 'Samenwerking tussen Alexander Keirincx en Cornelis van Poelenburch belicht', Oud Holland 122 (2009), p. 14-42
S. Bartilla, '"Odysseus und Athena in der Grotte der Nymphen", eine neuplatonische Allegorie von Cornelis van Poelenburch', in: A.K. Sevcík (ed.), Hane Seifertové k 75. narozeninám, Prague 2009, p. 12-21
N.C. Sluijter-Seijffert, '''Un bellissima cabinetto". An art cabinet with paintings by Cornelis van Poelenburch and Bartholomeus van Bassen', in: Ch. Dumas et al. (eds), Liber Amicorum Marijke de Kinkelder. Collegiale bijdragen over landschappen, marines en architectuur, The Hague 2013, p. 359-368
E. Schavemaker, 'Review of Nicolette Sluijter-Seijffert, Cornelis van Poelenburch 1594/5-1667. The paintings [...]', De Zeventiende Eeuw 32 (2016) no. 1, p. 102-104
B. van der Goes, 'Cornelis van Poelenburch: schilder van goden, nimfen en landschappen', Collect 22 (2017) no. 3, p. 26-31
L. Pijl, Review of: 'Cornelis van Poelenburch [...] by Nicolette Sluijter Seijffert', The Burlington Magazine 160 (2018) no. 1379, p. 160-161

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