Caterina van hemessen self-portrait (1548)
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Cornelis van Cleve
Cornelis van Cleve, Cornelis van Cleef or Cornelis van der Beke, nickname Sotte Cleve ('Mad Cleve')[1] (1520 in Antwerp – 1567/1614)[2] was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Antwerp who is known for his religious compositions and portraits. Starting his career in Antwerp in the workshop of his father Joos van Cleve, he later worked for a while in London. When he failed to achieve success in England, he became insane and stopped painting.[3]
Life
He was born in Antwerp as the son of Anna Vijdt and Joos van Cleve, a prominent representative of the 16th-century Antwerp school of painting.[4] Little is known about his training but it is believed he trained in his father's studio. Some details of his life have become mixed up with those of his father. It was believed previously it was his father who became mad and was given the nickname 'Sotte Cleve' ('Mad Cleve'). However, the current view is that it was Cornelis who became mad.[3]
Cornelis was a proficient helper in the studio of his
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Benjamin Van Cleave Full Biography
I was born in 1773, the oldest of four boys and five girls born to blacksmith John Van Cleave. Two of my brothers and one sister died as small children. My Dutch ancestors had come from Long Island to New Jersey in 1717 and about 1751 my father’s family settled in Monmouth County and my father set up his blacksmith shop at Freehold.
My earliest important memory came when I was just five years old and was witness to events involved with the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. When I wrote my memoirs many years later I wrote that as the armies approached I well-remembered the “confusion of the women & children & their flight to the pine swamps.” When we were about a mile from home we saw the British army a mile and half in the distance. The adults got together to talk about what to do while the men went in search of our army. In the confusion I tried to return home and almost ran into the British army when the sound of their bugles “drove me back” and I found that no one had missed me. The next day my father and his brothers were assigne
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Joos van Cleve
Flemish painter
Joos van Cleve (;[1] also Joos van der Beke; c. 1485–1490 – 1540/1541) was a leading painter active in Antwerp from his arrival there around 1511 until his death in 1540 or 1541. Within Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, he combines the traditional techniques of Early Netherlandish painting with influences of more contemporary Renaissance painting styles.[2]
An active member and co-deacon of the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp, he is known mostly for his religious works and portraits, some of royalty. He ran a large workshop, with at least five pupils and other assistants, which produced paintings in a variety of styles over his career.[3] As a skilled technician, his art shows sensitivity to color and a unique solidarity of figures.[4] His style is highly eclectic: he was one of the first to introduce broad world landscapes in the backgrounds of his paintings, sometimes collaborating with Joachim Patinir, which would become a popular technique of sixteenth century northern Renaissance paintings.
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