Cornelis van der Voort

He was likely born around 1576 in Antwerp in the Habsburg Netherlands as the son of Pieter van der Voort, a cloth weaver by trade.

The family van der Voort moved to the Northern Netherlands in 1585, likely fleeing Antwerp because they were Calvinists.

[1] As a young man he was praised by the leading art historian and theorist Karel van Mander.

Van der Voort probably had seven children and married twice: in 1598 with Geertrui Willems, who died in 1609, and in 1613 with Cornelia Brouwers.

Van der Voort painted full-length portraits in contemporary interiors: e.g. of Jan Cornelisz.

His own students included David Bailly,[6] who copied his collection of paintings, Pieter Luyx, Dirk Harmensz.