Cornelis van Dalem
1530-1573
Cornelis van Dalem was Flemish Mannerist painter. He was notable artist who have been rediscovered in our time. We knew about him only from Karel van Mander and from the Liggeren of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke.
He was born in Antwerp 1573. Possibly he was the father of Cornelis Cornelisz Dalem. According to Van Mander who praises him as an excellent painter of rocks, van Dalem, an Antwerp nobleman, was admitted as a master to the Guild of St. Luke in 1556. He was the last master of Bartholomaeus Spranger who remained with him for four years until 1564. He painted only seldom and in his paintings, Van Mander says, he had the figures added by Gillis Mostaert or Joachim Bueckelaer. He is first mentioned in 1545 as apprenticed to Jan Adriaensen, and became 1556 free masters of the guild of Antwerp. In 1567 he was still active and among contemporaries he was counted as a virtuoso engineer of the glass painting. One of his pupils was Bartholomäus Spranger.
For religious reasons 1565, Cornelis van Dalem left Antwerp. The sect of the Anabaptists to which Dalem was related, was forbidden, and he moved on a property in Bavel with Breda in the Northern provinces. There he was accused of the heresy, was arrested, released on intervention of his wife, shortly after.
From the Liggeren we also know that a painter named Cornelis van Dalem died between 1573 and 1576.
