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Cornelia Pronck

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Cornelia Pronck
Borncirca 1600
North Holland
Died1666
NationalityDutch

Cornelia Pronck (circa 1600 – 1666) was a Dutch woman known today for her portrait by Rembrandt, currently in the collection of the Louvre.

Pronck appears in Amsterdam archives as Neeltje Pronck. She married the sulpher dealer Albert Cuijper 1622.[1] Her son Cornelis Martsz. Pronck sold a house in Amsterdam called "De Eendracht", where on 19 April 1638, the honorable Neeltge Cornelis, widow of Albert Cuijper, lying sick in bed, drew up her testament. She excluded the Amsterdam Orphan Chamber from any oversight on the estate and named Cornelis Martsz. Pronck and her brother Marten Cornelisz. Pronck as guardians of her children.[1]

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  1. ^ a b The inscription Cornelia Pronck on the back of a portrait of Rembrandt, "signed and dated 1633, where the sitter was said to be 33 years old, enabled Isabella van Eeghen to identify the double portrait of Albert Cuijper and his wife Cornelia, whom he married in 1622" in the Frick "Art in the Montias Database"
  • De echtgenoot van Cornelia Pronck, by Eeghen, I.H. van, 1956