Cornelis Vermeulen

"Vermeulen (Cornelis) in 1732 te Dordrecht geboren, copieërde schilderijen van Nederlandsche meesters en bracht ze in een groote lijst in symetrisch verband. Het ensemble hetwelk in buitenomtrek 38 voeten groot was, noemde hij een schilderij "zonder weerga" die hij ten zijnen huize en ook op kermissen liet bezichtigen. Ook vervaardigde hij twee andere dergelijke schilderijenverzamelingen. Zijn kopijen waren slecht en stijf, doch gaven immer eenig denkbeeld van het origineel. Hij was een goed graveur. Nagler noemt 69 zijner graveerwerken op, met welke 13 historieële en paorbretten. Hij oefende ook het beroep van kunsthandelaar uit en overleed in zijn geboorte stad Dordrecht in 1814"

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A Friend of Cornelis was Cornelis Kuipers, painter, 1739-1802

Cornelis Kuipers, a man who played a subordinate role in the Dordtse painting-art, was born on July 3, 1739 as the son of the 'good citizens' Hendrik Kuipers and Cornelia van Nispen. As a young boy he learned drawing but it was theintention that he learned coarse painting. Cornelis took his apprenticeship in The Hague by Hendrik Johan Keller (1698-1765) and his student Dirk van der Aa (1731-1809), where cilings, room wall systems, panels for carriages and chimney and door pieces were produced. Keller gave Kuiprs the opportunity to improve his skills in painting.

After his training Cornelis Kuipers returned to his native city, wher he married January 1, 1764 with Adriana Booy. His mother was a witness at the wedding but his father had already died a few years before. Kuipers ad a flourishing shop and made decorative paintings in the houses of prominent residents Dordtse commitments. Examples include the chimney piece for the Maaskamer (Mese Room), an existing dome-shaped room in the house Wolwershaven 9 and in 1778 a chimney piece in Louis XV-style for a house in the Wijnstraat.

He also made the painting of the organ and the pulpit in the Lutheran church. He also painted landscapes, flowers and portraits amd a group portrait of the family Blussé in 1777. Kuipers is briefly described in the following quote: 'C. Kuipers was an obese and portly man, who had much ingenuity and could become a good painter when from the beginning a good master of painting had apprenticed him '. Kuiper as a friend of the Dortse painter Cornelis Vermeulen (1732-1813) http://www.dordrechtmonumenteel.nl/index.php?/lgw-museum-aan-de-maa...