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SAFTLEVEN, Cornelis
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c._1635
Oil_on_panel,_34_x_53_cm
Akademie_der_Bildenden_K??nste,_Vienna
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Oil on panel, 34 x 53 cm
Akademie der Bildenden K??nste, Vienna |
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Dutch painter (b. 1607, Gorinchem, d. 1681, Rotterdam).Painter and draughtsman. After training as a painter in Rotterdam, he may have visited Antwerp c. 1632-4. From c. 1634 he was in Utrecht, where his brother (2) Herman the younger had settled, and they collaborated on a portrait of Godard van Reede and his Family (1634-5; Maarssen, Slot Zuylen). In 1637 Cornelis was back in Rotterdam, where in 1648 he married Catharina van der Heyden (d Rotterdam, 1654). The year after her death, he married Elisabeth van der Avondt. He became dean of the Guild of St Luke in Rotterdam in 1667.
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