Cornelis Beelt
Illustration — Grote Markt of Haarlem, c. 1670-90, by Cornelis Beelt • Illustration — Winter landscape with ice skaters • Illustration — A crowd of people on the beach watches the naval battle of Scheveningen in 1653. Cornelis Beelt (born 1602/1612 – died 1664/1702), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Also recorded as Cornelis Beelt van Haerlem · K. Beeld · Beelt · K. Beelt
Cornelis Beelt
Cornelis Beelt · Hart Amsterdam · Public domain
- Born
- 1640 · Rotterdam.
- Died
- 1702 · Rotterdam.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter
- Known for
- The Dutch herring fleet under sail · The departure of King Charles II of England from Scheveningen, 2 June 1660 · The Grote Markt, Haarlem at the announcement of the Treaty of Munster and 1648 · The beach at Egmond aan Zee
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Grote Markt of Haarlem, c. 1670-90, by Cornelis Beelt • Illustration — Winter landscape with ice skaters • Illustration — A crowd of people on the beach watches the naval battle of Scheveningen in 1653. Cornelis Beelt (born 1602/1612 – died 1664/1702), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
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Cornelis Beelt (1640–1702) was a Dutch painter. The painter was born and died in Rotterdam. Cornelis Beelt worked in Haarlem.
Works include The beach at Egmond aan Zee and The Dutch herring fleet under sail. Languages used include Dutch. Works by the painter are held at Amsterdam Museum, Frans Hals Museum and Fries Museum, among others.
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The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Haarlem. Works named in the authority record are The Dutch herring fleet under sail, The departure of King Charles II of England from Scheveningen, 2 June 1660, The Grote Markt, Haarlem at the announcement of the Treaty of Munster, 1648 and The beach at Egmond aan Zee. Work by Cornelis Beelt is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Amsterdam Museum, Rijksmuseum, Fries Museum and Hermitage Museum.
According to the RKD though older sources claim he was born in Rotterdam in 1640, this is impossible because he was engaged to be married in Haarlem 30 March 1630. This places the year of his birth between 1602 and 1612. It is unknown in what year he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke, but he is listed in 1661 as one of the 51 better-known painters of the total of 72 painters who paid their 7 stuivers that year. He is known for signed landscapes between 1651 and 1664. He is listed in Vincent van der Vinne's list of guild members that he knew and his name was marked with a "d" for dead before 1702 as "cor: beelt". He was a follower of Willem Gillisz Kool. His last dated work was from 1664, so he died sometime between 1664 and 1702.
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- 1.Cornelis Beelt in the RKD
- 2.De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798, Hessel Miedema, 1980,
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