Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts (1625-1629 – after 1675)
• Was a Flemish painter.
• It is assumed that he was born sometime between 1625 and 1629 in Antwerp.
• He married Anna Moons on 26 April 1648.
• On 16 November 1659, Gijsbrechts joined the Sodaliteit van de bejaerde jongmans ('Sodality of Elderly Bachelors'), a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order.
• Between 18 September 1659 and 18 September 1660 he was registered as a 'wijnmeester' (i. i.e. son of a master) in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp.
• His earliest known painting, the Vanitas still life with a young Moor presenting a pocket watch is dated 1657.
• It is assumed that Gijsbrechts moved in 1664 or 1665 to Hamburg where he stayed for a few years.
• From 1668 to 1672 he worked as a court painter in Copenhagen.
• His most prolific period as a painter falls in the short period of his stay at the court of the Danish kings Frederick III, and after Christian V.
• In 1675 he is recorded in Breslau (Wrocław).
• Possibly he resided in Bruges in Flanders after this time.
