# Family Portrait [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VOS, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 165 x 135 cm ## Commentary Portraiture was generally viewed as a slightly inferior branch of art, as it required less inventiveness on the part of the painter. The portraits of Cornelis De Vos, who was born in Hulst in the Northern Netherlands, but who was active in Antwerp, are amongst the most beautiful produced in the Southern Netherlands in the 17th century. The full-length, life-size subjects of his Family Portrait are executed in a truthful and intriguing manner. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Grapheus]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Allegory of Transience]() - [Apollo and the Python]() - [Birth of Venus]() - [Card Players]() - [Elisabeth \(or Cornelia\) Vekemans as a Young Girl]() - [Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos]() - [Players and Courtesans under a Tent]() - [Portrait of a Boy]() - [Portrait of a Girl at the Age of 10]() - [Portrait of a Lady in Elegant Dress]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()