Cornelis Saftleven (c. 1607 – 1681)

• Was a Dutch painter.
• Saftleven range of subjects was very wide and included portraits, farmhouse interiors, rural and beach scenes, landscapes with cattle, history paintings, scenes of Hell, allegories, satires and illustrations of proverbs.
• Cornelis Saftleven was born into a family of artists.
• He learned to paint possibly from his father Herman, along with his brothers Abraham and Herman Saftleven the Younger.
• After training in Rotterdam, Cornelis traveled to Antwerp around 1632.
• Peter Paul Rubens is known to have added figures in paintings of Saftleven before 1637.
• When Rubens died in 1640 there were eight Saftlevens in his collection, four of which with figures added by Rubens.
• By 1634 Cornelis was in Utrecht, where his brother Herman Saftleven the Younger was living.

• In 1648 he married Catharina van der Heyden, who died in 1654.

• The year after her death, he married Elisabeth van der Avondt.

• He became dean of the guild of Saint Luke of Rotterdam in 1667.

• His pupils included Abraham Hondius, Ludolf de Jongh and Egbert Lievensz. van der Poel.

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