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SAFTLEVEN, Cornelis
Dutch painter (b. 1607, Gorinchem, d. 1681, Rotterdam).Painter and draughtsman. After training as a painter in Rotterdam, he may have visited Antwerp c. 1632-4. From c. 1634 he was in Utrecht, where his brother (2) Herman the younger had settled, and they collaborated on a portrait of Godard van Reede and his Family (1634-5; Maarssen, Slot Zuylen). In 1637 Cornelis was back in Rotterdam, where in 1648 he married Catharina van der Heyden (d Rotterdam, 1654). The year after her death, he married Elisabeth van der Avondt. He became dean of the Guild of St Luke in Rotterdam in 1667. Related Paintings of SAFTLEVEN, Cornelis :. | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 279 | Griffoni-Altar, ursprl. Griffonikapelle in der San Petronio in Bologna, linker Flugel | pi rump med sit studekoretoj forbi plantagen ved lille rolighed iskagen | Oil on canvas portrait of George Washington at Dorchester Heights. | Portrait of Louis XIII of France | Related Artists: Balen, Hendrick vonDutch, approx. 1575-1632
Hendrik van Balen
Students included Anthony Van Dyck, Frans Snyders and Gerard Seghers
Angelika Kauffmann1741-1807,Swiss neoclassical painter and graphic artist. From her youth she was known for her artistic, musical, and linguistic abilities. She went to England, where she enjoyed success as a fashionable portrait painter and decorator. A protegee of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Kauffman was one of the original members of the Royal Academy. She often decorated houses designed by the Adam brothers. After her marriage in 1781 to the Venetian painter Antonio Zucchi, she lived in Italy, where she flourished in artistic and literary circles. Reynolds, Winckelmann, Goethe, and Garrick commissioned her to paint their portraits. Representative works include Religion (National Gall., London); Self-Portrait (Staatliche Museen, Berlin); and the etchings of L'Allegra and La Pensierosa. The British Museum has a collection of her drawings and prints. John Edward Brett1830-1902
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