Cornelis van der Meulen
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Cornelis van der Meulen was a Dutch Golden Age
painter.
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Samuel van Hoogstraten and made clever vanitas
and trompe l'oeil paintings. He moved to Sweden in 1679.
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
According to Houbraken he was a portrait painter who had been a pupil of Samuel van Hoogstraten.According to the RKD he was a pupil of Samuel van Hoogstraten and made clever vanitas
Vanitas
In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with Northern European still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated...
and trompe l'oeil paintings. He moved to Sweden in 1679.