In the history of art, Cornelius van Poelenburgh is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Cornelius van Poelenburgh as Dutch painter (1594–1667).
Cornelius van Poelenburgh was born at Utrecht in 1594. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is baroque.
His best-known work is The Finding of Moses. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Cornelius van Poelenburgh died in 1667, aged 73. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Finding of Moses
- Movement: Baroque
