Cornelis Engelsz
{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter (1575–1650)}}
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Cornelis Engelsz (1575–1650) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the father of Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck.
Biography
Engelsz was born in Gouda. According to Houbraken, he was a pupil of Karel van Mander and a colleague of Frans Hals in Haarlem.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0126.htm Karel van Mander eulogy] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
The Frans Hals Museum has several works by him and his son, the portrait painter Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Cornelis Cornelisz and he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1593 and was from 1594 to 1621 a member of the schutterij there that he painted in 1618.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/26342 Cornelis Engelsz] in the RKD He died in Haarlem.
Works
La Garde civique de Saint-Adrien Cornelis Engelsz 1612-1.jpg|The St Adrian Civic Guard – 1612
– Collection of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
Cornelis Engelsz - Portret van Floris van Schoterbosch.jpg|Portret van Floris van Schoterbosch, 1618
Cornelis Engelsz - Old man grateful for alms.jpg|Old man accepting alms
References
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Category:Dutch Golden Age painters
Category:People from Gouda, South Holland