Thomas Hendrick Keyser - Artist Info

About Thomas Hendrick Keyser

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Thomas Hendricksz de Keyser
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    Thomas de Keyser (1596-1667)

    He started his career in the second half of the 1620s and quickly developed into one of Amsterdam's most innovative portrait specialists.  He created his own specialty, painting small-scale portraits and showing his sitters full-length.  De Keyser's long career lasted until the early 1660s.

    A portrait by De Keyser, dated 1636, entered the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne in 1987 (inv. E1-1987), shows Frederick Van Velthuysen with his first wife Josina van Schonevelt, whom he married in 1632 (and who died in 1637).  Van Velthuysen married his second wife, Johanna van Straten, in 1647 and in 1651 she bore him a son, named Dirck.  Frederick died in 1658 and when De Keyser wa...

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