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JANSSEN, or JANSEN (sometimes JOHNSON...

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

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