Cornelis de Vos

Cornelis de Vos (October 1584 – May 9, 1651) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draftsman, and art dealer. He was born in Hulst, then in the Spanish Netherlands, and spent nearly all of his career in Antwerp. He became a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in 1608.

De Vos specialized in portraiture, history painting, and genre scenes. He maintained one of Antwerp’s leading portrait studios during the first half of the seventeenth century and received commissions from wealthy merchants, civic officials, and prominent families. He also collaborated with Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jan Wildens, and his younger brother Paul de Vos, contributing figures to large collaborative compositions.

His paintings are represented in major museums including the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum, the Museo Nacional del Prado, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, and many other public collections.

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