Background
Cornelis van Noorde was born in Haarlem on March 12, 1731, into the family of Rijkes van Noorde and Josina van de Berg, who ran a bakery on the corner of the Kleine Houtstraat and the Patientiestraat.
Cornelis van Noorde was born in Haarlem on March 12, 1731, into the family of Rijkes van Noorde and Josina van de Berg, who ran a bakery on the corner of the Kleine Houtstraat and the Patientiestraat.
Cornelis was taught by Frans Decker, and after he died in 1751, by Tako Hajo Jelgersma.
Originally Cornelis was apprenticed to his father, but his considerable artistic talents led him to choose another career. In 1761 he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke. Van Noorde lived in a house on the Oude Gracht which he had inherited from his artist uncle Cornelis van der Berg, who had also kept a studio there.
Van Noorde was a teacher and director of the Haarlem Teekenacademie (drawing academy), of which he was one of the founding members in 1772. Among his pupils were Augustijn Claterbos, Warnaar Horstink, and Johannes Swertner. Cornelis seemed to have kept up the academy somewhat on his own because three weeks after he died it was dissolved in 1795. Van Noorde worked almost exclusively in watercolour, producing portraits, landscapes, copies after 17th-century paintings, and architectural views, which have brought him most fame. The artist died on October 16, 1795 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
a Boy Lighting a Pipe
Type-foundry of Johan Enschedé, Haarlem
Illustration from Haarlem Printing Company
Ruïne Van Het Huis Te Kleef Bij Haarlem
View of the Hofstede "the Klooster" from the Kleverlaan.
View of the Kleverlaan, Haarlem
Jacob De Bucquoy
Jan De Visscher
View of Haarlem from the Brouwersvaart
Portret Van De Friese Zeeschilder Wigerus Vitringa
Johannes Enschedé Sr
View at halwegen Overveen
Portrait of Agatha Van Hoorn, Wife of Haarlem Mayor Cornelis Guldewagen
Jan De Beijer
Illustration from Haarlem Printing Company
Izaak Enschedé
Slepershoofd Spaarne
the 'heilige Geesthuis' Or City Orphanage
View from the Blinkert of the City Haalem
Portrait of Abraham Rademaker
Self-portrait
In 1761 Cornelis became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke.
In 1783 Cornelis married Catharina van Seelen, but the marriage remained childless.