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Cornelis De Wael BIOGRAPHY
1592 Antwerp, Belgium - 1667 Rome, Italy. Known for: Landscape, figure.
Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam,... Read full biography
Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam, where he settled with his children. The new store is in the Mennonite quarter, on the New Dyke, not... Read full biography
Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam, where he settled with his children. The new store is in the Mennonite quarter, on the New Dyke, not far from the port. It is close to the studio of Jan Pynas (1581/82-1631), a history painter who was probably the very first master of Jacob Adriaensz. Cornelis returned to Leeuwarden in Friesland,... Read full biography
Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam, where he settled with his children. The new store is in the Mennonite quarter, on the New Dyke, not far from the port. It is close to the studio of Jan Pynas (1581/82-1631), a history painter who was probably the very first master of Jacob Adriaensz. Cornelis returned to Leeuwarden in Friesland, where he was a pupil and later assistant of the history painter and art dealer Lambert Jacobz (1593/94-1636), also a Mennonite preacher. Govaert Flinck (1615-1660), seven years Jacob Backer's junior, also from a Mennonite family (his grandfather was a... Read full biography
Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam, where he settled with his children. The new store is in the Mennonite quarter, on the New Dyke, not far from the port. It is close to the studio of Jan Pynas (1581/82-1631), a history painter who was probably the very first master of Jacob Adriaensz. Cornelis returned to Leeuwarden in Friesland, where he was a pupil and later assistant of the history painter and art dealer Lambert Jacobz (1593/94-1636), also a Mennonite preacher. Govaert Flinck (1615-1660), seven years Jacob Backer's junior, also from a Mennonite family (his grandfather was a preacher in Cologne), frequented this studio from 1629 to 1635. The friendship between the two artists was to be long-lasting, and although Jac... Read full biography
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Born into a Mennonite family, Cornelis De Wael was born in Harlingen, Friesland. He was only three years old when his mother died. His father, a baker, remarried the daughter of a baker in Amsterdam, where he settled with his children. The new store is in the Mennonite quarter, on the New Dyke, not far from the port. It is close to the studio of Jan Pynas (1581/82-1631), a history painter who was probably the very first master of Jacob Adriaensz.
Cornelis returned to Leeuwarden in Friesland, where he was a pupil and later assistant of the history painter and art dealer Lambert Jacobz (1593/94-1636), also a Mennonite preacher. Govaert Flinck (1615-1660), seven years Jacob Backer's junior, also from a Mennonite family (his grandfather...But wait, there's more...
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