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Cornelis Troost
1697-1750 Holland/Rococo
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Brief Biography-Cornelis Troost was born in Amsterdam in 1697. He was a pupil of the portraitist Arnold Boonen, and he became inspired by the works of Jean Antoine Watteau and William Hogarth. Troost gained recognition with his portraits of the directors of the college of surgeons in Amsterdam and the noted physician Boerhaave. His Conversations received criticism for being immodest at the time; however, they are his most famous works today, notably the NELRI series. The Latin inscription refers to Nemo loquebatur; no one there spoke. Erat Sermo inter frate s; the friends got to talking. Loquebantur omnes; everyone spoke. Rumor erat in casa; it is loud in the house. Ibant qui poterant, qui non-potuere cadebant, who could still walk, went home, who could no longer fall over.
Troost also painted military subjects and was an acclaimed portraitist. In 1726, he became a burgess of Amsterdam. His daughter Sara earned a high reputation for making copies of her father’s works and other notable Dutch painters. |
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A Guard
Room

Unknown
-Man

Anatomy
Lesson

The
Mathematicians

Captain
Ulrich

Creed
Deceived

City
Garden

Family
Group

Floris
Drabbe

Self
portrait

Self
-Portrait

In
Love

Jan Jacob
Mauricius

Organ
Grinder

Love
Scene

Music
lover

Singing Round
the Star

Pefroen and The
Sheeps Head

The Discovery
of Jan Claesz

Inspectors of the
Collegium Medicum

Reinier Adriaanszs
Declaration of Love

Geertruys Feigned
Sorrow

Harlequin Magican
and
Barber

The NELRI
Series

Brothers were having
a Conversation

Everyone
was Speaking

There was
a Commotion

Those who
Could Walk

The Discovery
of Volkert

In the Laundry
Basket

The Marriage
Proposal

The Wedding of
Kloris and Roosje

The Spend
-thrift

A
Gentleman

Jeronimus
Tonneman

Surgeons
of the Guild

Alexander
the Great

Blindman's
Buff
