Cornelis van Dalem

Dalem Cornelis (* circa 1535 in Breda, † 1575) was a Brabantischer glass painters in Antwerp.

Maybe he was the father of Cornelis Cornelisz Dalem. In 1534 he was guild master in Antwerp, 1540-1558, he reported there apprentices and remained active there until 1567. He was considered by his contemporaries as a virtuoso technician of stained glass

In 1545 he went about Jan Adriaensen into teaching and was in 1556 a free master of the guild of Antwerp. He married in the same year Beatrijs van Liedekercke, a woman from a well-known patrician family.

For religious reasons, they left Antwerp in 1565, since there was banned the Reformation Anabaptist movement to which they were connected, and attracted as many other Baptist in the northern provinces of the Netherlands. Dalem Cornelis and his wife relocated to an estate in Bavel at Breda. Here he was accused of heresy and imprisoned in 1571, but shortly thereafter released on intervention of his wife. One of his students from 1560 to 1564 was Bartholomäus Spranger.