Hendrick Cornelisz van Vliet
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Portraiture, Architectural Painter Art Work
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Hendrick Cornelisz van Vliet |
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Delft |
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1611 |
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1675 |
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Quick Facts
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Portraiture, Architectural Painter |
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Painting
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Biography
| Together with Gerrit Houckgeest and Emanuel de Witte, van Vliet was the only architectural painter of note active in Delft during the seventeenth century. A pupil of his uncle, Willcm van Vliet, and later of Michie! van Micrevelt, Hendrick spent the first part of his career specializing in portraits, of which some dozen or so survive. These show him to be a follower, not an innovator, in portraiture. After about 1650 Hendrick turned to church interiors, and until roughly 1662 he developed various approaches and views which he tended to repeat after that. His earliest known example, the Interior of the St. Peterskerk in Leiden (signed and dated 1652, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum), relies on Houckgeest's use of a vantage point and his employment of a green curtain to develop the illusion of space behind it. Van Vliet did, however, develop a greater sense of atmosphere and lighting than did Houckgeest, and he often incorporated figures to underscore the message of morality. Though he was in Leiden and later in Haarlem in 1654, van Vliet spent most of his career painting the interiors of two churches: the Oude Kerk and the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft. |
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