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Thomas Hendrick Keyser BIOGRAPHY
1596 Amsterdam ? - 1667 Amsterdam. Known for: Portrait and figure painting.
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 was asked to paint a commemorative... Read full biography
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 was asked to paint a commemorative portrait of father and son, he used the earlier portrait as a model. Quite some of Thomas de Keyser's portra... Read full biography
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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...But wait, there's more...
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