Cornelis Anthonisz., Anthonisz. (Anthony's son) also spelled Anthonissen or Teunissen (ca. 1505 – 1553), was a Dutch painter, engraver, and mapmaker.
Biography
Anthonisz. was born in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
around 1505. He was a grandchild of
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen
Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (before 1470 – 1533) was a Northern Netherlandish designer of woodcuts and painter. He was one of the first important artists working in Amsterdam, at a time when it was a flourishing and beautiful provincial ...
, who probably taught him to paint, and a cousin of
Dirck Jacobsz. In 1538 he painted the first complete map of Amsterdam as a commission from the city fathers to present as a gift to
Charles V.
He is known mostly for his woodcuts, especially the ''Bird's eye view of Amsterdam'', from 1544. This was printed in 12 blocks of wood, and was recopied and reprinted as an accurate map until well into the 17th century. Unfortunately, this became severely damaged in a fire in the Amsterdam city hall in 1652, but it was restored in 1932. Many of the buildings in this painting still stand today.
He also made several portraits of heads of state, and allegorical prints. Only two of his paintings survive that have been attributed to him, a very early example of the
militia group portrait
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
or ''schutterstuk'', the 1533 ''Banquet of Members of Amsterdam's Crossbow Civic Guard'' (''Braspenningsmaaltijd'') with a stiff and unsubtle depiction, and a portrait of
Reinoud III van Brederode
Reinoud III van Brederode (4 September 1492, Brederode Castle, Santpoort – 25 September 1556, in Brussels), lord of Brederode and Vianen, burgrave of Utrecht, master of the woods and master of the hunt of Holland, member of the Council ...
.
Reinoud III
in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Anthonisz. died in his hometown Amsterdam in 1553.
His popular bird's eye view of Amsterdam was copied in 1652 by Jan Micker
Jan Christiaensz Micker (1598 in Amsterdam – 1664 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Biography
Houbraken mentioned him as a "gemeen schilder" who was the first drawing teacher of Jan Baptist Weenix.[< ...]
and completed with cloud shadows over the land.
References
Cornelis Anthonisz.
in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Collection Amsterdam Historical Museum
External links
*
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints
', a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cornelis Anthonisz. (see index)
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Dutch engravers
Dutch wood engravers
1500s births
1553 deaths
16th-century Dutch cartographers
16th-century Dutch painters
Painters from Amsterdam