Interior of the Old Church in Delft

HENDRIK CORNELISZ VAN VLIET

Delft 1611/12  – 1675

Provenance
C.M.Napper, London/Switzerland by 1997
Anonymous sale Sotheby’s, London, 14-12-2000

Hendrik Cornelisz van Vliet was a pupil of his uncle Willem van der Vliet. He admitted the Guild of Saint Luke in Delft in 1632.  He started with architectural painting, particularly the painting of church interiors. Before him, Pieter Saenredam introduced innovative techniques of perspective. By mid of the century, architectural painting gained great popularity. Among the churches painted by van Vliet are the Pieterskerk in Leiden, the Oude- en Nieuwe Kerk in Delft. Hendrik van Vliet was buried in the Old Church in 1675.

Later in his career he took up portrait painting with Michiel van Mierevelt
Three similar renderings of the Old Church in Delft by Hendrik van Vliet,, depicted from the same point and distance are a1660 dated canvas in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Mauritshuis and the Gemaeldegalerie der Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste in
Vienna, also datable c. 1660

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