Cornelis van Haarlem

Habsburg Netherlands · 1562–1638

Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist. == Biography == Born in Haarlem, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem was a pupil of Pieter Pietersz in Haarlem, and later Gillis Coignet in Antwerp. He is known among art historians as a member of the Haarlem Mannerists, who were highly influenced by the work of Bartholomeus Spranger, whose drawings were brought to Haarlem by Karel van Mander in 1585, and had a strong immediate effect. He painted mainly portraits as well as mythological and Biblical subjects. Initially Van Haarlem painted large-size, highly stylised works with Italianate nudes in twisted poses with a grotesque, unnatural anatomy.

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