Cornelis Troost (8 October 1696 – 7 March 1750) was an 18th-century actor and painter from Amsterdam.
Troost was trained as an actor and married the actress Susanna Maria van der Duyn, but became a pupil of Arnold Boonen and gave taking place his career for painting in 1723.
He is primarily remembered for his works depicting scenes from the Amsterdam Theatre (he as well as made theatre decorations for plays) and daily sparkle of the upper crust in Amsterdam. One of his dated drawings obsolete 1708, is of Prince Eugene of Savoy and the bookseller and spy Louis Renard visiting a chic Amsterdam brothel. Then he had an early exploit with a full of zip group portrait depicting the Amsterdam Inspectors of the Collegium Medicum (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1724). Troost painted portraits, including one of Herman Boerhaave, the well-known doctor from Leiden. Troost is known for his paintings of actors in well-known roles as well as his humorous and elegant Rococo genre scenes. Troost was possibly influenced by William Hogarth, and extremely by French artists such as Watteau, Boucher and Lancret.
His 1736 painting Jeronimus Tonneman and his Son shows the art magpie seated in his parlour. He lived upon the Keizersgracht, and collected Troost’s paintings. It is assumed the book on the table is by Karel van Mander and on the chimney breast Argus and Mercury can be seen. Troost himself lived nearby on the banks of the river Amstel and at Prinsengracht.
A well-known work, in his favorite medium of pastel and watercolor, is a five portray series entitled NELRI (Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1740). The herald is derived from the first letters of the Latin inscriptions which accompany five views of the endeavors of a group of men during a night of reunion.
His pupils were Jacobus Buys, Noël Challe, Pieter Tanjé, and his own daughter Sara Troost. He had five daughters and they were whatever trained in the arts, but by yourself Sara had works engraved by supplementary artists. She married the printer Jacob Ploos van Amstel and complementary daughter Elisabeth married his brother, the Amsterdam painter Cornelis Ploos van Amstel.
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