Cornelis de Vos

Cornelis de Vos ( * 1585 in Hulst, Flanders, † May 9, 1651 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter.

Work

Cornelis de Vos met in Antwerp in 1608 was David Remeens and free master of the guild. It was the style of the older masters school of to greater strength and fullness of life. De Vos had religious and mythological images as well as portraits painted, of which the latter show his artistic skills at the highest level.

From his portraits, the most outstanding are:

  • The servant of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke ( in the Museum of Antwerp )
  • The Master and his family ( in the Museum at Brussels),
  • The Hutten Family ( Alte Pinakothek Munich) and
  • Portrait of a Child ( Städel in Frankfurt / M. )
  • Abraham Grapheus, 1620, wood, 120 x 102 cm.
  • Anne- Frédérique van den Boeckhorst, 1622, canvas, 109 × 86 cm.
  • Antonia van Eversdyk, 1624, wood, 122 x 93 cm.
  • Portrait of a Lady, wood, 59 × 49 cm.
  • Portrait of a boy, 1627, wood, 75 × 62 cm.
  • Portrait of a Girl, canvas, 120 × 79 cm.
  • Cornelia (or Elisabeth ) Vekemans as a Young Girl

Of his religious pictures: the return of the sacred vessels on the St. Norbert ( in the Museum at Antwerp) and the anointing of Solomon ( in the Imperial Gallery at Vienna ).

His brother Paul de Vos (1590-1678) had hunts and animals painted in the manner of Frans Snyders and was an employee of Peter Paul Rubens.

Works

(Selection)

Portraits

  • The servant of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke
  • The master and his family
  • Portrait of a Child

Religious

  • The return of the sacred vessels on the St. Norbert
  • The anointing of Solomon
  • Diogenes of Sinope meets Alexander the Great
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