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VOS, CORNELIS DE, the elder, born at
Hulst in the summer of 1585, died in Antwerp,
May 9,
1651. Flemish
school; history
and portrait
painter, pupil of
David Remeeus;
master of the
guild of Antwerp
in 1608, its dean
in 1619-20. He
formed several
pupils, notably
Jean Cossiers and Simon de Vos, with whom
he is often confounded. Belongs to the school
of Van Dyck, whose friend he was, and who
painted his portrait. Works: Episode in
Life of St. Norbert, Adoration of the Magi,
Vow to the Virgin, several portraits, Museum,
Antwerp; Descent from the Cross, Cathedral,
ib.; Artist and his Family, Brussels
Museum; Portrait of Young Lady (1620),
Suermondt Museum, Aix-la-Chapelle; Allegory
on Riches, Rotterdam Museum; do.,
Brunswick Museum; Male Portraits (2),
Cassel Gallery; The Hutten Family, Old
Pinakothek, Munich; Cleopatra before Antony
at Tarsus, Portrait of a Lady (1617),
Oldenburg Gallery; Two Scenes in Life of
St. George, Stuttgart Museum; Married
Couple on Terrace (1629), Painter's Daughters,
Berlin Museum; Lady and Three Gentlemen
at a Game, Stockholm Museum;
Family Group, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Solomon anointed King, Vienna Museum;
Portraits of Frans Snyders and Wife, Turin
Gallery; Triumph of Bacchus, Apollo and
Python, Venus, Madrid Museum; Portrait of
Young Girl, New
York Museum.—Ch.
Blanc,
École flamande; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers,
133; Kramm, vi. 1793; Michiels, viii. 293;
Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 92; Rooses (Reber),
347; Van den Branden, 639, 653.
VOS, MARTEN DE, the elder, born in
Antwerp in 1532, died there, Dec. 17, 1603.
Flemish school; history and portrait painter,
pupil of his father, Pieter de Vos (born
in 1490), and of
Frans Floris, afterwards
of Tintoretto
at Venice.
On his return
to Antwerp
he established a
school; was received
into guild
of St. Luke in
1559, dean in
1572. He was one of the most prolific painters
of his time. Works: Raising of Lazarus,
Samson and Delilah, Madrid Museum; St.
Paul stung by Viper, Louvre; Crucifixion,
Triptych with Incredulity of St. Thomas
(1574), Temptation of St. Anthony (1594),
thirty others, Museum, Antwerp; several,
Cathedral, ib.; Portraits of Man and Wife,
Brussels Museum; Holy Family (1585),
Ghent Museum; Moses with the Law Tables
(1575), Hague Museum; Jesus on the Sea
of Tiberias (1589); Prophet Jonah cast into
the Sea (1589), Mythological Allegory, Susanna
and the Elders, Israelites crossing the
Red Sea, Carlsruhe Gallery; Crucifixion,
Schleissheim Gallery; do., and Portrait of
the Artist, Museum, Vienna; Raising of
Lazarus, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Pietà,
Baptism of Christ, Harrach Gallery, ib.;
Hermit in Prayer, Wiesbaden Gallery;
Earthly Paradise, and several portraits, Uffizi,
Florence. His son, Marten (born 1576),
was also a painter.—Ch.
Blanc,
École flamande,
Cat. du Mus.
d'Anvers, 122;
Immerzeel, iii. 207; Kramm, vi. 1797;
Kugler (Crowe), i. 239; Michiels, v. 420;
Rooses (Reber), 101; Van den Branden,
216.
VOS, PAULUS DE, born at Hulst about 1590, died in 1678. Flemish school; animal painter; most successful imitator of Snyders, his brother-in-law. Painted a