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'' self-portrait '' baroque 27 august 1664 haarlem , netherlands nederland cornelis bega painting , engraving c. 1631-2 cornelis bega.jpg cornelis pietersz bega
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cornelis pietersz bega

cornelis pietersz bega , or `` cornelis pietersz begijn '' -lrb- 1631/1632 -- 27 august 1664 -rrb- was a dutch golden age painter and engraver .
bega was born , lived and worked in haarlem and was the son of sculptor and goldsmith pieter jansz .
begijn .
his mother maria was the illegitimate daughter of the haarlem painter cornelis van haarlem .
he assumed the name `` bega '' when he started working professionally .
he was a student of adriaen van ostade , and produced genre scenes of similar subjects , typically groups of a few peasant figures , often in interior settings , or fanciful figures such as `` the alchemist '' -lrb- malibu -rrb- or `` the astrologer '' -lrb- london -rrb- .
from 1653 to 1654 he traveled by horse and boat on a grand tour with fellow painters dirk helmbreker , vincent van der vinne and guillam dubois through germany , switzerland and france .
this trip was recorded in vincent van der vinne 's diaries and gives an accurate view of the art in the cities they visited in those times .
his dated works begin in 1652 , and in 1654 he was accepted into the haarlem guild of st. luke , dying only ten years later , which according to houbraken was due to the plague .
he was close friends with the haarlem painter leendert van der cooghen .
when he died he was buried in the grave of his grandfather cornelis van haarlem .
