Cornelis norbertus gysbrechts biography sample

Flemish painter (1640–1675)

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts
Self-portrait, detail from A Cabinet in the Artist's Studio
Died	After 1675
Nationality	Flemish
Known for	Still life painting

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts^{[needs Dutch IPA]} or Gysbrechts (1625/1629 – after 1675)^[1] was a Flemish painter who was active in the Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden in the second half of the seventeenth century.^[2] He was a court painter to the Danish royal family.

Around the time Pepys was poking the painting of Verelst, another northern European painter, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, was also causing.

Few details endure about the life and family circumstances of Flemish painter Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts.

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (After ) was active/lived in Flemish, Netherlands.

Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts was a Flemish painter who worked in the second half of the 17th century.

Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts was born in Antwerp and later worked in The Hague and in Hamburg ().

He specialised in trompe-l'œil still lifes, an artistic genre which uses visual tricks to give viewers the illusion that they are not looking at a painting but rather at real three-dimensional objects. He also created many vanitas still lifes.^[3]

Life

Details about the life of Gijsbrechts are scarce.

It is not known with certainty where and when he was born. His activities in the final years of his life are