Cornelis van der Voort (1576 – 1624)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
• He was born in Antwerp; his father was Pieter van der Voort, a painter.
• As a young man he was praised by Karel van Mander.
• In 1606 his brother Hans, a tailor, bought three parcels on which two houses were built.
• Hans moved into the one on the corner, and Cornelis in the one next to it.
• Only a few years later Cornelis sold the house; in 1639 Rembrandt and his wife Saskia van Uylenburgh moved in.
• Today it is the Rembrandt House Museum.
• Around 1613 he was a member of the schutterij and painted a few schuttersstukken.
• Van der Voort probably had seven children and married twice: in 1598 with Geertrui Willems, who died in 1609, and in 1613 with Cornelia Brouwers.
• In 1619 Van der Voort was the head of the Guild of St. Luke.
• He died in Amsterdam and was buried on 2 November 1624.
• In August 1625 his inventory was sold.
• In 1626 his art business was taken over by Hendrick van Uylenburgh.
• Van der Voort painted full-length portraits in contemporary interiors.
• He had a strong influence on the early portraits of Rembrandt, as well as the work of Nicolaes Eliasz. Pickenoy and Thomas de Keyser.
• His own students included David Bailly, who copied his collection of paintings, Pieter Luyx, Dirk Harmensz. and probably Pieter Codde.
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