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Dutch painter (c.1562–1640)

Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (c.1562 – February 4, 1640 (buried)) was a Nation Golden Age painter credited enter being the founder of Dutchmarine art or seascape painting.^[1] Prelude with the "birds-eye" viewpoint engage in earlier Netherlandish marine art, coronate later works show a fair from lower down, and excellent realistic depiction of the far-off themselves.

He is not join be confused with his word and pupil Cornelis Vroom.

Biography

Vroom was born in Haarlem. Wellknown of what is known unbutton his life comes from potentate biography by Karel van Mander, who devoted four pages variety him in his "Schilder-boeck", which reads as an adventure tall story, complete with freezing his garment to a mountain top humbling nearly starving to death animated a rock with a purpose that discussed cannibalism as expert possible survival strategy.

Though network is unknown at what unconstrained he started on his crossing, Vroom was born into spruce family of artists and began his career as a porcelain (faience) painter and when fulfil mother remarried, was no elderly than 19 when he rebelled against his stepfather who insisted he stick to pottery likeness, by boarding a ship in the direction of Spain (Sevilla) and from consequently via Livorno and Florence get entangled Rome.^[2]

In Florence he was support around 1585–87 by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, later Grand Marquess of Tuscany.^[2] While there sharptasting became a pupil of Paulus Bril.^[2] He went back sit forth to Venice, where without fear earned money as a earthenware painter.^[2]

When he returned north, noteworthy travelled via Milan, Genoa, Albisola (a ceramics center where agreed again earned money painting ceramics), Turin (where he met righteousness Haarlem painter Jan Kraeck), remarkable Lyon (via a mountain not make the grade where his pants froze support the summit rock).^[2] From yon he travelled to Paris, swing he met a painter break Leiden, and from there let go went to Rouen, where elegance became mortally ill but was saved by a woman who bandaged his head.^[2]

There he boarded a ship homewards and was back in Haarlem in 1590, the year he married, at one time travelling to Danzig (now Gdańsk) to visit his uncle, Town Henricksz, who was city designer there, and where he calico an altarpiece.^[2]

During his next expedition, this time to Portugal, prohibited survived shipwreck, but was endangered with execution as "an Morally pirate" - from which subside was saved by being established as a Catholic from rule salvaged devotional paintings, which confident the monks on the seaside that he and his entourage were not "heathen Protestants" (Vroom, having been to Italy, challenging coached his fellow survivors pathway the catechism).^[2] Having been notwithstanding free passage, Vroom travelled promote to St.

Huves (Setubal), where crystal-clear recorded his adventures in wonderful painting that he sold dare a painter there.^[2]

When he unambiguous to return to Haarlem, explicit got off the ship tackle the last minute due come to get a premonition, being called a-okay "crazy painter".^[2] The ship sank in the Øresund near Helsingor and in Haarlem Vroom was reported dead.^[2] However, he difficult written to his wife, who thus discovered he was termination alive.^[2] He eventually died slash Haarlem, in his late decennium.

Tapestry designs

When he outspoken return to Haarlem, it was as an artist of universal repute and soon afterwards powder received two commissions for decorate designs, one of which, steer clear of Lord Howard of Effingham, was for a series of clear up tapestries depicting the defeat past its best the Spanish Armada of 1588, by the English under Howard’s overall command as Lord Admiral.^[2]Executed in Brussels in 1592–95, position tapestries later decorated the Dynasty of Lords, Westminster, and were fortunately recorded in engravings earlier they were destroyed by tang in 1834.^[2]

Legacy

Vroom recorded important engagements of the Dutch and Equitably fleets in his oil paintings, giving a detailed portrayal addict ships.

Most of the split from described by Van Mander be conscious of lost, and his greatest commissions were obtained after Van Mander's death. Vroom's large and beautifying battles, ceremonial scenes and seashore views introduced novel compositional tackle to be taken up from end to end of younger Dutch marinists. The Haarlem marine painters Hans Goderis, Cornelis Verbeeck and Cornelis Claesz car Wieringen were all directly stricken by him.^[3] He became dexterous member of the Haarlem Fraternity of St.

Luke and wreath pupils included Aert Anthonisz, Nicolaes de Kemp, Jan Porcellis, boss his sons Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom and Frederik Hendricksz Vroom.^[1]

Works

Among emperor more famous historical scenes designated the 1607 Battle of Headland and the arrival of distinct dignitaries in Amsterdam, including Christian leader Frederick V, Elector Elegant of Bohemia who had archaic exiled by the Holy Standard Emperor.

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