Cornelis Ketel

Place: Gouda

Born: 1548

Death: 1616

Biography:

Cornelis or Cornelius Ketel (18 March 1548 – 8 August 1616 ) was a Dutch Mannerist painter, active in Elizabethan London from 1573 to 1581, and in Amsterdam from 1581 to the early 17th century, now known essentially as a portrait-painter, though he was also a poet and orator, and from 1595 began to sculpt as well. According to Ketel's biography, wr...