Early Life, Family and Training Leiden, 1671. Cornelis Beeldemaker enters a world defined by the brushstrokes of his father, Adriaen Cornelisz. Beeldemaker is born into a lineage of painters, the son of a man already established in the craft. He grows up alongside his younger brother, Frans Beeldemaker. The household functions as a workshop where the boundaries between family life and professional training are nonexistent. The apprenticeship begins at home. Cornelis Beeldemaker studies under his father, absorbing the technical foundations of the trade through direct observation and practice.…