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(2) Karel van Mander III
(b Delft, 1610; d Copenhagen, bur 6 April 1670). Painter, grandson of (1) Karel van Mander I. After his father’s death in 1623, the 13-year-old Karel III and his mother Cornelia Rooswijck moved to Denmark. From 1623 to 1629 Karel III trained with Pieter Isaacsz., and from 1631 he worked as a portrait painter to the royal family. In 1635 he received financial support from Christian IV to travel to the Netherlands and Flanders (where he visited the workshops of Rembrandt and Rubens) and then to France, Italy and Spain. On his return to Denmark in 1638, Karel III became court painter, working in an eclectic style primarily influenced by Rembrandt and Rubens. Although his compositions tend to be traditional, he managed to break away from the rigidity of Danish portrait painting by his use of vivid colour and free handling of the brush. In both the equestrian portrait of Christian IV (1642) and the full-length portrait of the King (1643–4; both Hillerød, Frederiksborg Slot), the influence of Frans Hals, Rubens and van Dyck is evident. After Christian IV’s death, van Mander III worked for his successor, Frederick III, and between 1650 and 1660 his portraits with innovative blue backgrounds made him very popular. The portrait of Prince Jørgen (1660; Hillerød, Frederiksborg Slot) is painted in the fashionable ‘heroic style’ of the time whereby the subject is depicted in Classical or mythological costume.
Part of the Mander, van family
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