Dirck de Bray (c. 1635 in Haarlem – 1694 in Goch) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a multi-talented son and pupil of the painter and architect Salomon de Bray. He was known as a flower painter, but he could also sculpt. He carved a wooden bust of his father's head, that Houbraken admired and used for his engraving of Salomon in his "Schouburg". He became a monk in the Gaesdonck monastery near Goch.1 He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1671. Dirck was born into an artistic family. His brother Jan became a well-known painter, and his brother Joseph was also a painter, though he died young. His sister Cornelia married Jan Lievens. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen, and the poet Jacob Westerbaen. He was a printmaker and painted flower- and hunting still lifes. After 1678 he moved to the Gaesdonck monastery.2
References
References
- Houbraken, Arnold (1718). De groote schouburgh der nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen : waar van 'er vele met hunne beeltenissen ten tooneel een verschynen, en hun levensgedrag en konstwerken beschreven worden: zynde een vervolg op Het Schilderboek van K. v. Mander. Getty Research Institute. T'Amsterdam : Gedrukt voor den autheur, daar de zelve ook te bekomen zyn.
- Dirck de Bray in the RKD
External links
External links
- Works and literature on PubHist
- Dirck de Bray on Artnet
- Print after his design by Jan de Visscher and with a poem by his father; showing the young priest Simon van der Plas of Spaarnwoude (Geheugen van Nederland)