Cornelis de Man
Illustration — Drawing of Cornelis de Man by Jelgersma (special Collections Leiden University Library) • Illustration — The Chess Players. Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) • Illustration — Musical Company in an Interior, Delft, c. 1670, private collection Cornelis de Man (1 July 1621, in Delft – 1 September 1706, in Delft) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
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Cornelis de Man

Cornelis de Man · http: kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=A+III+2426 · Public domain
- Born
- 1621 · Delft.
- Died
- 1706 · Delft.
- Nationality
- Dutch Republic
- Occupation
- painter
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- history
- Known for
- Interior of the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam · Reyer Reyersz van der Burch (1630-95), ammunition officer attached to the arsenal of the states-general, Delft and with his wife Geertruid Graswinckel and their children · The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — Drawing of Cornelis de Man by Jelgersma (special Collections Leiden University Library) • Illustration — The Chess Players. Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) • Illustration — Musical Company in an Interior, Delft, c. 1670, private collection Cornelis de Man (1 July 1621, in Delft – 1 September 1706, in Delft) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
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Biography
The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are history. Places of work recorded in the authority are Delft, Paris and Lyon. Works named in the authority record are Interior of the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam, Reyer Reyersz van der Burch (1630-95), ammunition officer attached to the arsenal of the states-general, Delft, with his wife Geertruid Graswinckel and their children and The Whale-oil Refinery near the Village of Smerenburg. Work by Cornelis de Man is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Finnish National Gallery, J. Paul Getty Museum and Rijksmuseum.
As a young man, Kornelis was not satisfied with life in Delft. He wanted to travel beyond the port of Dordrecht and that is what he did, spending a year in Paris as soon as he came of age and had enough talent to pay his way with his painting skills. According to the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) he became a member of the Delft Guild of St. Luke in 1642 and ultimately travelled to Italy. He was well-received in Paris at the outset of his travels, but set off in the Spring for Lyon in order to cross Lombardia and the mountains before another winter set in. He settled for two years in Florence, where he had a rich patron, but finally stayed the longest in Rome. On the way back home he stopped in Venice, and in the end was gone for a total of nine years. He was back in 1653 and stayed in Delft, where he created genre works that are reckoned to be "of the "Pieter de Hooch" school.
Career in Delft
Career in Delft
He became a successful painter in Delft, painting a prestigious group portrait for the Anatomy guild there, as well as a renowned painting for the Amsterdam Noordsche Compagnie, a northern branch of the Amsterdam Dutch East India Company. This unusual painting was a studio reconstruction of the factory in Spitsbergen, based on a Danish original. He added all sorts of arctic details to this painting, though he never traveled further north than Denmark. • Illustration — The whale-oil factory of the Amsterdam chamber of the Noordsche Compagnie at Smeerenburg. 1639. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Identificatie Titel(s): Portret van Cornelis de Man
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Musical Company in an Interior, Oil on canvas, 100 x 84,5 cm; Delft, 1670s
Cornelis de Man (1621-1706) · Dorotheum
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1621
Cornelis de Man born at Delft.
1706
Cornelis de Man died at Delft.
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