Cornelis Pietersz Bega, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cornelis Pietersz Bega

painter from the Northern Netherlands

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1630

Place of Birth: Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 27-Aug-1664

Profession: painter, printmaker

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Cornelis Pietersz Bega, or Cornelis Pietersz Begijn (1631/32 – 27 August 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver. Bega was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith Pieter Jansz.
Begijn.
His mother Maria was the illegitimate daughter of the Haarlem painter Cornelis van Haarlem.
He assumed the name Bega when he started working professionally.
He was a student of Adriaen van Ostade, and produced genre scenes of similar subjects, typically groups of a few peasant figures, often in interior settings, or fanciful figures such as The Alchemist (Malibu) or The Astrologer (London). From 1653 to 1654 he traveled by horse and boat on a Grand Tour with fellow painters Dirk Helmbreker, Vincent van der Vinne and Guillam Dubois through Germany, Switzerland and France.
This trip was recorded in Vincent van der Vinne's diaries and gives an accurate view of the art in the cities they visited in those times.
His dated works begin in 1652, and in 1654 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St.
Luke, dying only ten years later, which according to Houbraken was due to the plague.
He was close friends with the Haarlem painter Leendert van der Cooghen.
When he died he was buried in the grave of his grandfather Cornelis van Haarlem.



Alternative names	Cornelis Bega, Bagijn, Begijn, Begga
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher
Date of birth/death	circa 1631–1632	27 August 1664
Location of birth/death	Haarlem (?)	Haarlem
Work location	Haarlem, Rome, Germany (January 1653), Switzerland (1653), Haarlem (June 1653-1664)
Authority control	: Q421775 VIAF: 8181099 ISNI: 0000 0000 6674 8477 ULAN: 500118926 LCCN: nr91028224 WGA: BEGA, Cornelis WorldCat