Cornelis Ketel

Cornelis Ketel ( born March 18, 1548 Gouda; † August 8, 1616 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch portrait, allegories and history painter, architect, sculptor and author. His work is attributable to the late Mannerism.

Life

The son of GJ Van Proyen enjoyed his training with his uncle Cornelis Jacobsz Ketel († 1568) and about 1565 in Anthonie van Blocklandt ( 1533/34-1583 ) in Delft.

In 1566 he stayed in Paris and Fontainebleau, where his formative artists of the School of Fontainebleau. Two years later, his presence is in his home town of Gouda is, from 1573 to 1581 he worked in London. There he portrayed Queen Elizabeth I and several members of the English nobility, and met the Italian painter Federico Zuccaro probably ( 1542-1609 ). After that, he lived in Amsterdam before he settled in 1590 in Gouda again.

Cornelis Ketel died in 1616 at the age of 68 years in Amsterdam.

He was one of the teachers of Dirck Barendsz ( 1534-1592 ).

Work

Cornelis Ketel created complex, now lost, but known by Karel van Mander's descriptions and engravings allegories, like the engraved by one of his works allegory of human nature of the Amsterdam Rijksprentenkabinetts.

However, he distinguished himself mainly as a portraitist, and is cited as the first artist who created group pictures in the Elizabethan era, as they later Frans Hals painted. In the field of history painting, he is next to Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1616) and Cornelis van Haarlem (1562-1638) as one of the main characters of the late Mannerism.

Selection

Cornelis Ketel was further related to the in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC preserved so-called Ashbourne portrait called as a suspected copyright holder of this work, however, was the monogram, which is based on this hypothesis has not been identified, so that it inadequately documented write-up must be addressed with appropriate skepticism.