Portrait of Cornelis Montigny de Glarges

1643 · Private collection

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This painting portrays Cornelis Montigny de Glarges, aged 43, half-length, in a brown coat and white lace ruff. He came from a wealthy Dutch family, and was educated at the University of Leiden. He was clearly very well connected in Haarlem and Leiden: he maintained an album amicorum from 1622 until 1679 in which friends including the still-life painter Floris van Dyck, and the draughtsman and engraver Jacob Matham, the portraitist David Bailly, as well as poets, historians, scientists and philosophers such as Jacob Cats, Samuel Ampzing, Theodor Schrevelius, Constantijn and Christiaan Huygens and René Descartes inscribed poems, drawings and messages of goodwill.

About the Artist

Jan Cornelisz Verspronck

1603 – 1662

Dutch portrait painter noted for his portraits of children. He was trained in the studio of his father, Cornelis Engelsz., who painted portraits, kitchen still lifes and genre scenes. He joined the guild of St Luke in 1632 and spent his entire life as a portrait painter of his fellow townsmen. He was more than twenty years younger than Frans Hals and may have worked in his studio. He was certainly powerfully influenced by Hals's style. His most imposing works are the two group portraits of 1641 and 1642 of the Regentesses of the St Elizabeth Hospital which form a counterpart to the portrait of the Regents of the same institution painted by Hals in the same years. All three paintings hang today in the Frans Halsmuseum in Haarlem.

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