Cornelis Kick was a Dutch Golden Age

Dutch Golden Age

The Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...

 painter.

Biography

Kick was trained by his father, the painter Simon Kick

Simon Kick

-Biography:According to the RKD he was the son of the Delft varnish worker Willem Kick. He married Christina Duyster, who he got engaged to on the same day that her brother, the painter Willem Duyster got engaged to Simon's sister Margrieta. Simon and Stijntje became the parents of the painter...

 (1603-1652), who painted prestigious schuttersstukken

Schutterij

Schutterij refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces within the city, near the city walls, but, when the...

. Cornelis Kick is recorded as a painter from 1650 and specialized in flower still life

Still life

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

s in the manner of Jan Davidsz de Heem. His students were Elias van den Broeck

Elias van den Broeck

Elias van den Broeck was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.-Biography:According to the RKD, he was born in Antwerp, but in 1665 he became a pupil of Cornelis Kick in Amsterdam, and in 1669 he became a pupil of Jan Davidsz. de Heem. He is registered in Italy in 1672. In 1673 he accompanied De Heem...

 (1650-1708) and Jacob van Walscapelle (1644-1727).

According to Houbraken, he married the daughter of a pawnbroker, whose father had a garden outside the St Anthony's gate of Amsterdam. It was here that he painted flowers from nature with his student Jakob van Walskapel, until the expansion of the city forced him to move the garden further eastwards to Diemen

Diemen

Diemen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands with a population of around 24,000. Diemen is located in the province of North Holland directly to the east of Amsterdam within the capital's metropolitan area.-Geography:...

, whereupon Walskapel left his service and moved to Loenen

Loenen

Loenen is a former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. It was in the Vechtstreek area. On January 1, 2011, Loenen merged with Breukelen and Maarssen to form Stichtse Vecht.- Population centres :...

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