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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 154 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JANSSEN, or JANSEN (sometimes JOHNSON), CORNELIUS (1593-1664)  , Flemish painter, was apparently born in
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London, and baptized on the 14th of
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October 1593 . There seems no reason to suppose, as was formerly stated, that he was born at Amsterdam . He worked in England from 1618 to 1643, and afterwards retired to Holland, working at
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Middelburg, Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, and dying at one of the last two places about 1664 . In England he was patronized by James I. and the court, and under Charles I. he continued to paint the numerous portraits which adorn many
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English mansions and collections . Janssen's pictures, chiefly portraits, are distinguished by clear colouring, delicate touch, good taste and careful finish . He generally painted upon panel, and often worked on a small scale, sometimes producing replicas of his larger
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works . A characteristic of his style is the very dark background, which throws the carnations of his portraits into rounded
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relief . In all probability his earliest portrait (16,8) was that of John Milton as a boy of ten .

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