Cornelis Guldewagen (1599 – 1663), was a

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

mayor, known best today for his portrait by

Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...

Biography

He was born in Haarlem and was admitted to the Haarlem regency in 1625, becoming mayor in 1644. In 1627 he married Agatha van Hoorn, the sister of

Andries van Hoorn Andries van Hoorn, or van der Horn (1600 – after 1660), was a Dutch mayor of Haarlem, known best today for his portraits by Frans Hals. Biography He was born in Haarlem as the son of the Haarlem magistrate Dammas van Hoorn and Christina (St ...

, and together they had 11 children.Cornelis Guldewagen
in

Van der Aa Abraham Jacob van der Aa (7 December 1792, Amsterdam – 21 March 1857, Gorinchem) was a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries, one of notable people and the other of notable places in the Netherlands. He was born in Amsterdam in 1792. ...

Guldewagen was a brewer (brewery "De Vergulde Hart"), but became briefly embroiled in

Tulipmania Tulip mania ( nl, tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then d ...

when he and his associate, the Haarlem brewer Johan de Wael (brewery "De Zon"), attempted to transplant 1300 tulip bulbs in February 1637, which caused the crop to fail.Guldewagen and De Wael
in the tulip trade in 1637 The Guldewagens' son Dammas also became a member of the Haarlem regency, and when he married Judith Loreijn of the brewery "In de Drie Starren",

Jan de Bray Jan de Bray (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam. Jan de Bray was influenced by his father Salomon de Bray, and the por ...

painted his wedding portrait, and

Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck (between 1600 and 1603 – 30 June 1662 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter from Haarlem. Life Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck was born between 1600 and 1603 in Haarlem as the son of the painter Cor ...

, who used to live across from their house, painted Judith's portrait.

Family

File:Frans Hals Guldewagen.jpg File:Jan de Bray - Agatha van Hoorn 1660-1663.jpg, Pendant portrait of his wife Agatha van Hoorn, by

File:'Portrait of Dammas Guldewagen' by Jan de Bray, Dayton Art Institute.JPG, Portrait of their son Dammas Guldewagen, by Jan de Bray

Hals portrait

This painting was documented by

Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator. Life He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ...

in 1910, who wrote; "183. Cornells Guldewagen (who died in 1663), Burgomaster of Haarlem in 1642. M. 36. Half-length. A man of sixty with moustache and imperial, seated, facing the spectator. He is in black with a white collar and wristbands, and wears a black cap. His bare right hand is on his breast. His gloved left hand holds the other glove. Probably a small picture, painted between 1655 and 1660. Described from a water-colour copy by C. van Noorden in the Haarlem archives, which occurred in the sale Ekama of Haarlem, Amsterdam, April 8, 1891. See Moes, ''Iconographia Batava'', No. 2994. Exhibited at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

Winter Exhibition, London, 1871. Then in the Schwabe collection, London. Entry 183 for ''Cornelis Guldewagen''
in Hofstede de Groot, 1910

References

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