Cornelis van der Voort

Portrait of a man

Cornelis van der Voort or van der Voorde (c. 1576 – buried on 2 November 1624) was a Dutch portrait painter, art collector, art appraiser and art dealer from the early 17th century who was active in Amsterdam.[1] He painted individual portraits as well as group portraits including schuttersstukken depicting local militia members and regentenstukken depicting regents of charitable institutions, a genre of which van der Voort was the inventor.[2][3] He played an important role in the development of portrait painting in the early 17th-century Dutch Republic. He is particularly noted for introducing the life-size, full-length format to Dutch portraiture.[4]

  1. ^ G. Wuestman, 2007, 'Cornelis van der Voort, Portrait of Laurens Reael (1583-1637), c. 1620', in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam (accessed 20 August 2024 13:45:44)
  2. ^ Cornelis van der Voort at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  3. ^ Oddens, Joris (2021). "You can leave your hat on: Men's portraits, power, and identity in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic". The Seventeenth Century. 36 (5): 797–853. doi:10.1080/0268117X.2020.1832562.
  4. ^ Cornelis van der Voort, Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a black vlieger brocade gown, with an elongated embroidered stomacher, lace-trimmed cuffs and a cartwheel ruff trimmed with reticella lace at Christie's London on 7 July 2016 lot 2