Cornelis Holsteyn was a Dutch Golden Age painter from Haarlem.
Background
According to the RKD he was a painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations, trained by his father Pieter Holsteyn I. According to Houbraken, his father was a glass painter, and thus was trained for glass painting, but the market in glass painting not being what it was, he turned his hand to painting canvas.
Career
Houbraken felt he received less for a painting than he deserved, because his work was of a very high quality. He describes a Triumph of Bacchus, and a Lycurgus, which was painted for the Amsterdam Orphanage. He was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk on December 2, 1658 from his home on the Rozengracht.
Houbraken claimed he had been fit until his sudden death by Hartvang, or heart-attack.
Membership
Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke.