How to Pronounce Cornelis Ketel
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Mar 18, 1548 Gouda, South Holland, Netherlands Died on 08 Aug 1616 (aged 68)
painter from the Northern Netherlands
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About Cornelis Ketel
- Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 – 8 August 1616) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well.According to Ketel's biography, written by his contemporary Karel van Mander, he seems to have wanted to concentrate on the most prestigious of the hierarchy of genres, history painting, which included mythological subjects, but after he left France he is known almost entirely as a portrait-painter.
- Neither England nor Holland had much demand for large history paintings during his lifetime, and none of Ketel's histories or allegorical paintings are known to have survived intact, although drawings and prints survive.
- He did however significantly influence the development of the largest type of painting commonly produced in the United Provinces at this period, the civic group portrait.
