Cornelis van Slingeland explained

Cornelis van Slingeland (1635 in Dordrecht – 1686 in Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he was both a cook and a painter, known by the bentname "Zeehaan" (Sea-rooster, or Sea-cock) for going to Rome twice by sea.[1] He lived in Dordrecht "by de Groothoofdspoort, over 't Ossenhoofd".[1]

According to the RKD he was a portrait painter who buried a child in 1666 in Dordrecht, which indicated he had settled there.[2] He ran a kitchen for feeding the poor.[2]

He was possibly related to Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt. No known works survive.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Cornelis van Slingeland Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/338691 Cornelis van Slingeland