Cornelis Guldewagen [SEP] position held
Cornelis Guldewagen
Cornelis Guldewagen (1599 – 1663), was a Haarlem mayor, known best today for his portrait by Frans Hals.
Biography.
He was born in Haarlem and was admitted to the Haarlem regency in 1625, becoming mayor in 1644. In 1627 he married Agatha van Hoorn, the sister of Andries van Hoorn, and together they had 11 children.
Guldewagen was a brewer (brewery "De Vergulde Hart"), but became briefly embroiled in Tulipmania when he and his associate, the Haarlem
brewer Cornelis Guldewagen, whose portrait was painted by Hals in 1660. Though the genre of the work is similar to works painted by Hals in the early thirties, the rough brush strokes are more similar to his work in the sixties. Possibly, the man with the jug and Guldewagen himself are the same:
In an old genre painting of Haarlem from the 1650s, a man is transporting beer jugs with a horse-drawn sled. The jugs have a red deer on them, the symbol of Guldewagen's brewery: