Cornelis Engelsz

(1575–1650) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and the father of Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck.

Engelsz was born in Gouda.

According to Houbraken, he was a pupil of Karel van Mander and a colleague of Frans Hals in Haarlem.

[1] The Frans Hals Museum has several works by him and his son, the portrait painter Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck.

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Cornelis Cornelisz and he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1593 and was from 1594 to 1621 a member of the schutterij there that he painted in 1618.

Presumed selfportrait of Cornelis Engelsz, 1612
– Coll. of Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg