Thomas de Keyser

Portrait of Pieter Schout on Horseback

Thomas de Keyser (* around 1596 in Amsterdam ; buried June 7, 1667 or died in November 1679 there) was a Dutch painter and basalt stone dealer .

The son of the sculptor Hendrick de Keyser worked as a painter in Amsterdam all his life, initially under the influence of Dirck Hals and Rembrandt van Rijn . Although little is known about his life and training, he is one of the most distinguished portrait painters of the Dutch school, along with Hals, Rembrandt and Bartholomeus van der Helst . He combines extraordinary clarity of coloring and a fine coloristic feeling with energy of perception and sharpness of the drawing. The architect Pieter de Keyser was his brother.

Major works

Schützenstück, 1633
The four mayors, 1638
Portraits of Amsterdam Mayor Cornelis de Graeff and his wife Catharina Hooft
Portraits of a Married Couple with Son and Daughter, 1625
Woman with a Young Man at a Table, 1650

literature

Joseph Eduard Wessely : Keyser, Thomas de . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 694 f.
Alfred von Wurzbach : Dutch artist lexicon . Volume 1, Vienna and Leipzig 1906, pp. 268–269 ( digitized version ).
Rudolf Oldenbourg : Thomas de Keyser's activity as a painter. A contribution to the history of the Dutch portrait . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1911 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Thomas de Keyser - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by Thomas de Keyser at Zeno.org .

personal data
SURNAME	Keyser, Thomas de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Keyzer, Thomas de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1596
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam , Republic of the Seven United Provinces
DATE OF DEATH	November 1679 or buried June 7, 1667
Place of death	Amsterdam , Republic of the Seven United Provinces