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Cornelisz Vroom
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BIOGRAPHY:
Early Days Of Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom:
Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom was born in 1566 at the place of Haarlem. He was a Dutch Golden Age painter qualified with being the founder of Dutch marine art or seascape painting. Beginning with the "birds-eye" point of view of earlier Netherlandish marine art, his later works show a view from lower down, and more realistic depiction of the seas themselves. He is not to be bemused with his son and pupil Cornelis Hendrickz Vroom.Born in Haarlem he began his occupation as a pottery (faience) painter and in this capacity travelled to Spain and Italy. In Florence he was patronized approximately 1585–87 by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, later Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom Carriers:
Born in Haarlem he began his occupation as a pottery (faience) painter and in this capacity travelled to Spain and Italy. In Florence he was patronized approximately 1585–87 by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, later Grand Duke of Tuscany. While there he became a trainee of Paulus Bril. It was perhaps at the Grand Duke's inducement that he took up easel painting. He was back in Haarlem in 1590, the year he married, before travelling to Danzig. During his next journey, this time to Portugal, he survived shipwreck and probably murder by being recognized as a Catholic from his salvaged religious paintings and he recorded the event in a series of pictures that he sold in Portugal.
He returned to Haarlem as an artist of global repute and soon afterwards received two commissions for tapestry designs, one of which, from Lord Howard of Effingham, was for a series of ten tapestries depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada of 1588, by the English under Howard’s overall command as Lord Admiral. Executed in Brussels in 1592–95, the tapestries later decked the House of Lords, Westminster, and were fortunately recorded in engravings before they were destroyed with it, by fire in 1834. He also recorded important engagements of the Dutch and English fleets in his oil paintings, giving a complete portrayal of ships. His large and decorative battles, ceremonial scenes and beach views introduced novel compositional strategy to be taken up by younger Dutch marinists. The Haarlem painters Hans Goderis, Cornelis Verbeeck and Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen were all directly influenced by him. His pupils included Aert Anthonisz, Nicolaes de Kemp, Jan Porcellis, and his son Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom.
