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'''Jan de Bray''' (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697), was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter.<ref>[https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500032401 ULAN]: Middle name "Salomonsz" ("son of Salomon"), various spellings.</ref> |
'''Jan de Bray''' (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697), was a [[Dutch Golden Age]] painter.<ref>[https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500032401 ULAN]: Middle name "Salomonsz" ("son of Salomon"), various spellings.</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Jan de Bray was influenced by his father [[Salomon de Bray]], and the portraitists [[Bartholomeus van der Helst]], and [[Frans Hals]]. De Bray's works are mainly portraits, often of groups, and [[history painting]]s. He specialised in combining the two genres in the [[portrait historié]], portraits of historical figures using contemporary figures, including himself and his family. Among his finest works are two versions of the ''Banquet of Cleopatra'', using his own family, including himself, as models ([[Royal Collection]], 1652, and [[Currier Museum of Art]], [[New Hampshire]], 1669). The second version has great pathos, as most of those depicted had died in the plague of 1663-4.<ref>[[Christopher Lloyd (art historian)|Christopher Lloyd]], ''Enchanting the Eye, Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age'', pp. 49-52, Royal Collection Publications, 2004, {{ISBN|1-902163-90-7}}.</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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De Bray survived most of his family during an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem in 1664. He lost his father and two siblings within a month of each other. His wives - Maria van Hees whom he married 21 October 1688,<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=1tc9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA247 "Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen over Haarlemsche Schilders en Andere Beoefenaren van de Beeldende Kunsten" p. 247 ''books.google.com''] 23 September 2011</ref> Margaretha de Meyer whom he married in 1672,<ref>[http://www.russianpaintings.net/artist_museum.vphp?author=639&sort=added "Jan de Bray" ''russianpaintings.net'']{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 23 September 2011</ref> and Victoria Stalpert van der Wielen whom he married 30 January 1678,<ref name="books.google.com"/> each died before him; Victoria shortly after giving birth to their son, Johan Lucas. In 1689 he was declared bankrupt as a Haarlem citizen and moved to Amsterdam, where he died, though he was buried in Haarlem.<ref name=RKD/> |
De Bray survived most of his family during an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem in 1664. He lost his father and two siblings within a month of each other. His wives - Maria van Hees whom he married 21 October 1688,<ref name="books.google.com">[https://books.google.com/books?id=1tc9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA247 "Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen over Haarlemsche Schilders en Andere Beoefenaren van de Beeldende Kunsten" p. 247 ''books.google.com''] 23 September 2011</ref> Margaretha de Meyer whom he married in 1672,<ref>[http://www.russianpaintings.net/artist_museum.vphp?author=639&sort=added "Jan de Bray" ''russianpaintings.net'']{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 23 September 2011</ref> and Victoria Stalpert van der Wielen whom he married 30 January 1678,<ref name="books.google.com"/> each died before him; Victoria shortly after giving birth to their son, Johan Lucas. In 1689 he was declared bankrupt as a Haarlem citizen and moved to Amsterdam, where he died, though he was buried in Haarlem.<ref name=RKD/> |
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[[File:Jan de Bray - The de Bray Family (The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra) - WGA03122.jpg|thumb|In his family portrait depicting the banquet of Antony and [[Cleopatra]] at the moment when Cleopatra puts her earring in the wine, Jan is depicted standing on the left. In the earlier version, the sons look up to the father, and in this version, the brothers (all since deceased except for Dirck) look at Jan.]] |
[[File:Jan de Bray - The de Bray Family (The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra) - WGA03122.jpg|thumb|In his family portrait depicting the banquet of Antony and [[Cleopatra]] at the moment when Cleopatra puts her earring in the wine, Jan is depicted standing on the left. In the earlier version, the sons look up to the father, and in this version, the brothers (all since deceased except for Dirck) look at Jan.]] |
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File:De Bray - Bacchus.jpg|''Bacchus'', showing loose brush strokes |
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Revision as of 15:40, 18 September 2018
Jan de Bray (c. 1627 – April 4, 1697), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.[1]
Jan de Bray was influenced by his father Salomon de Bray, and the portraitists Bartholomeus van der Helst, and Frans Hals. De Bray's works are mainly portraits, often of groups, and history paintings. He specialised in combining the two genres in the portrait historié, portraits of historical figures using contemporary figures, including himself and his family. Among his finest works are two versions of the Banquet of Cleopatra, using his own family, including himself, as models (Royal Collection, 1652, and Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire, 1669). The second version has great pathos, as most of those depicted had died in the plague of 1663-4.[2]
Biography
Jan de Bray was born in Haarlem. According to Houbraken he was the most famous pupil of his father, the architect and poet Salomon de Bray.[3] Houbraken called Jan the "pearl in Haarlem's crown".[3] Houbraken saw a painting by de Bray of David and the Return of the Ark of the Covenant in the collection of Arnoud van Halen in Amsterdam, dated 1697, that he admired for its realistic flesh tones in the forms of David playing the harp and the Levites behind him. Houbraken also mentioned some black and red chalk drawings by him that he saw at the Amsterdam home of Isaak del Court.[3]
He spent most of his career working in Haarlem, where he was for many years dean of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke.[4] His brother Dirck de Bray was a flower painter who later became a monk in the monastery at Gaesdonck near Goch.[3] His brother Joseph was also a painter.[4] His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen[4] and the poet Jacob Westerbaen.
De Bray survived most of his family during an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem in 1664. He lost his father and two siblings within a month of each other. His wives - Maria van Hees whom he married 21 October 1688,[5] Margaretha de Meyer whom he married in 1672,[6] and Victoria Stalpert van der Wielen whom he married 30 January 1678,[5] each died before him; Victoria shortly after giving birth to their son, Johan Lucas. In 1689 he was declared bankrupt as a Haarlem citizen and moved to Amsterdam, where he died, though he was buried in Haarlem.[4]
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Bacchus, showing loose brush strokes -
The Adoration of the Magi, a typical altarpiece for a schuilkerk -
Head of a Boy. The Walters Art Museum.
References
- ^ ULAN: Middle name "Salomonsz" ("son of Salomon"), various spellings.
- ^ Christopher Lloyd, Enchanting the Eye, Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age, pp. 49-52, Royal Collection Publications, 2004, ISBN 1-902163-90-7.
- ^ a b c d Template:Link language Salomon de Bray Biography[permanent dead link] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ a b c d Jan de Bray in the RKD
- ^ a b "Geschiedkundige aanteekeningen over Haarlemsche Schilders en Andere Beoefenaren van de Beeldende Kunsten" p. 247 books.google.com 23 September 2011
- ^ "Jan de Bray" russianpaintings.net[permanent dead link] 23 September 2011
External links
- Jan de Bray on Artnet
- Works and literature on PubHist
- Murray, P. & L. (1996). Dictionary of art and artists (p. 65). London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051300-0. (For details see: Sources)
- Jan De Bray and the Classical Tradition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington - 16pp pdf exhibition brochure
- Entry for Jan de Bray in the RKD, the Netherlands Institute for Art History
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