KETEL, Cornelis


KETEL, Cornelis

Artist

(b. 1548, Gouda, d. 1616, Amsterdam)

Details

Dutch portrait and history painter. He worked mainly in Gouda and Amsterdam, but also in France and in England, where he lived 1573-81. Van Mander, who was well informed about him, mentions that he painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I for the Earl of Hertford in 1578, but the picture is not known. The portrait of Martin Frobisher (Bodleian Library, Oxford), however, is a good example of his work from his English period. Ketel's finest portraits are his group portraits (examples in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), which prefigure those of Frans Hals. //


Category Artists
Artists by letter K
Artist nationality Dutch