# KETEL, Cornelis [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1548–1616 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch portrait and history painter. He worked mainly in Gouda and Amsterdam, but also in France and in England, where he lived 1573-81. Van Mander, who was well informed about him, mentions that he painted a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I for the Earl of Hertford in 1578, but the picture is not known. The portrait of Martin Frobisher \(Bodleian Library, Oxford\), however, is a good example of his work from his English period. Ketel's finest portraits are his group portraits \(examples in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam\), which prefigure those of Frans Hals. ## Related artworks - [Double Portrait of a Brother and Sister]() - [The Mirror of Virtue]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()