Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet (1611/1612,

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– buried October 28, 1675, Delft) was a

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painter remembered mostly for his church interiors.

Biography

He studied under his uncle Willem van der Vliet and was admitted to the painters guild in Delft in 1632. He was good at perspective but later took up portrait painting with Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt. Van Vliet started out with architectural painting, particularly the painting of church interiors. Before him, architectural painting had been pioneered by

Pieter Saenredam Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (9 June 1597 – buried 31 May 1665) was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, known for his distinctive paintings of whitewashed church interiors such as ''Interior of St Bavo's Church in Haarlem'' and '' Interior of the S ...

, who introduced innovative techniques of perspective. By mid century, architectural painting gained great popularity. Among the churches painted by Van Vliet are the ''Pieterskerk'' (Peter's Church) in Leiden, the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Delft, and the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Delft (Van Vliet would be buried in the latter in 1675). Emanuel de Witte and Gerard Houckgeest, also painted these Delft church interiors. Paintings of the tomb of William the Silent were quite popular.

Works

The paintings of Van Vliet can be seen at the

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, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool, England), the Milwaukee Art Museum, the

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Sources

Hendrick van Vliet at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

External links

Works and literature on Hendrick Corneliszoon van VlietVan Vliet at the Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamVermeer and The Delft School
exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet (see index)
The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
exhibition catalog fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Hendrick Corneliszoon van Vliet (cat. no. 11) {{DEFAULTSORT:Vliet, Hendrick Cornelisz van 1610s births 1675 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft Burials at the Oude Kerk, Delft