Cornelis Huysmans (1648-1727)

• Was a Flemish landscape painter.
• Cornelis Huysmans was born in Antwerp.
• Upon the early death of his parents, his guardian sent him to study under the landscape painter Gaspar de Witte.
• He set up permanent residence in Brussels between 1675 and 1682.
• In 1675 he was admitted as an independent master of the Guild of Saint Luke in Brussels.
• During 1682 year Huysmans moved to Mechelen.

• Here he married on 26 January 1682 Maria Anna Scheppers.

• The couple had two sons and one daughter.

• His son Pieter Balthasar Huysmans was trained by his father but died young in 1706.

• From about 1686 to 1688, Cornelis Huysmans stayed in London.

• In 1688 Huysmans signed an agreement with the painters' guild of Mechelen, which allowed him to work as a painter in the city.
• He had to pay the guild 24 guilders and 14 stuivers for the privilege.
• He was the first teacher of his younger brother Jan Baptist, as well as of his son Pieter Balthasar.
• In Mechelen Augustus-Casimir Redel and Jean Edmond Turner were his pupils.
• He worked with Jacques d'Arthois in Brussels, and in 1674 with Adam Frans van der Meulen in Maastricht.

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