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Jan de Bray

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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, his brother Joseph and three other siblings within two months of each other. His wives – Maria van Hees whom he married 21 October 1668, Margaretha de Meyer whom he married in 1672, and
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Victoria Stalpert van der Wielen whom he married 30 January 1678 – 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.
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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
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behind him. Houbraken also mentioned some black and red chalk drawings by him that he saw at the Amsterdam home of Isaak del Court.
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Jan de Bray was born in Haarlem. According to Houbraken he was the most famous pupil of his father, the painter, architect and poet
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in Amsterdam, dated 1697, that he admired for its realistic flesh tones in the forms of David playing the harp and the
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Jan De Bray and the Classical Tradition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington - 16pp pdf exhibition brochure
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was also a painter. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen and the poet
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The Painter's Guild in 1675. Jan de Bray's self-portrait is the second from the left, and his brother
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was a flower painter who later became a monk in the monastery at Gaesdonck near
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De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen
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In his family portrait depicting the banquet of Antony and
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until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to
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Enchanting the Eye, Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age
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Dutch Golden Age painter
Haarlem
Amsterdam

Cleopatra
Salomon de Bray
Bartholomeus van der Helst
Frans Hals
history paintings
portrait historié
Royal Collection
Currier Museum of Art
New Hampshire
Salomon de Bray
David
Ark of the Covenant
Arnoud van Halen
Levites

Dirck de Bray
Haarlem
Haarlem Guild of St. Luke
Dirck de Bray
Goch
Joseph
Jacob Westerbaen
Jan Lievens
Cleopatra puts the pearl in the wine, Royal Collection, 1652 (first version)
Royal Collection

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