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Cornelis Cels (10 June 1778 – 3 March 1859) was a Flemish painter of portraits and religious subjects.''Corneille Cels''
Cornelis Cels (10 June 1778 – 3 March 1859) was a Flemish painter of portraits and religious subjects.''Corneille Cels''Adolphe Siret Adolphe Siret (July 15, 1818 – January 6, 1888) was a Belgian historian, biographer, essayist, poet, biographer, writer and man of letters.Biographie Nationale de Belgique, Volume 3, pp. 403–405 He was a professor and director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai). He was patronized as a portrait painter by the court of
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He returned to Flanders and lived and worked in Antwerp until 1815. That year he moved to The Hague, the administrative centre of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands of which the Southern Netherlands had become a part in 1815. Here he enjoyed the patronage of the royal court and was frequently commissioned to paint portraits of the royal family as well as other prominent sitters. He was admitted as a member of the Academy of Antwerp, the Academy of Amsterdam and correspondent of the Institut Néerlandais.
He was appointed in 1820 to the professorship of drawing and director at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai), positions he held until he resigned in 1827. He subsequently settled in Brussels, where he resided until his death except for a trip to England in 1836.
He was the father of Jean-Michel Cels, a landscape painter, and Josse Cels, an architect, who were trained by their father.
File:Aryna van der Pot, by Cornelis Cels.jpg, ''Portrait of Aryna van der Pot''
File:Cornelis Cels - Portrait of Jessy Macpherson.Jpeg, ''Portrait of Jessy Macpherson''
File:Zwitserse boerin Rijksmuseum SK-A-1019.jpeg, ''Swiss farm girl''
File:Cornelis Cels - Portrait of the painter Pierre-François Jacobs.jpg, ''Portrait of the painter ''
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
.Cornelis Celsat the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Life
Cels was born in Lier in theDuchy of Brabant
The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...
in 1778. His family was one of the prominent families in Lier. He initially studied under the sculptor Pompe and then under P.-J. Denis. He later went to study under the Antwerp painter Andries Cornelis Lens who had settled in Brussels and was then very successful. He studied under Lens from 1795 to 1800.
He travelled to Paris in September 1800 where he worked for a while under fellow Flemish painter Joseph-Benoît Suvée
Joseph-Benoît Suvée (3 January 1743 – 9 February 1807) was a Flemish painter strongly influenced by French neo-classicism.
Biography
Suvée was born in Bruges. Initially a pupil of Matthias de Visch, he came to France aged 19 and bec ...
, a Classicist
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painter. He then travelled on to Italy where he visited Florence and Naples and then settled in Rome where he remained for seven years. While in Rome, he sent his painting ''Cincinnatus'' (current location unknown) to the competition of the Academy of Ghent in 1802 where it won the golden prize.Liévin Armand Marie De Bast, ''Annales du salon de Gand et de l'école moderne des Pays-Bas: Recueil de morceaux choisis parmi les ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture et gravure, exposés au Musée en 1820'', P. F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1823, pp. 79-80 One of his works - a ''Descent from the Cross'' (
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) - in the Pantheon
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in Rome. He had been commissioned to paint the work as replacement for works by Rubens, which had been confiscated by the French occupiers.Saint Paul’s, the Antwerp Dominican church, a revelation. No convent church without a choir/ref> This work was so admired that he was immediately admitted as member and professor of the prestigious
Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...
in Rome. During his residence in Rome he painted many other commissions from Catholic institutions in Flanders and the Netherlands for religious works to replace paintings that had been lost to the French plunder.
He returned to Flanders and lived and worked in Antwerp until 1815. That year he moved to The Hague, the administrative centre of the new Kingdom of the Netherlands of which the Southern Netherlands had become a part in 1815. Here he enjoyed the patronage of the royal court and was frequently commissioned to paint portraits of the royal family as well as other prominent sitters. He was admitted as a member of the Academy of Antwerp, the Academy of Amsterdam and correspondent of the Institut Néerlandais.
He was appointed in 1820 to the professorship of drawing and director at the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Tournai (Academy of Fine Arts, Tournai), positions he held until he resigned in 1827. He subsequently settled in Brussels, where he resided until his death except for a trip to England in 1836.
He was the father of Jean-Michel Cels, a landscape painter, and Josse Cels, an architect, who were trained by their father.
Work
Cornelis was a painter of religious subjects as well as portraits. He also produced a few genre paintings. His work was influenced by the Neo-Classicist style becoming prevalent at the end of the 18th century. His masters Lens and Suvée were both representatives of this style in Flanders.References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cels, Cornelis 1778 births 1859 deaths Flemish portrait painters Flemish history painters People from Lier, Belgium Belgian painters