Borstbeeld van Jan de Bisschop geflankeerd door allegorische figuren

About this artwork

Titelpagina voor: Bisschop, Jan de. Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum. Amsterdam: Nicolaas Visscher (I), 1671.

About the Artist

Gerard de Lairesse · 1641–1711

Gerard de Lairesse (1641–1711) was a leading figure of the Dutch Golden Age, renowned as both a painter and art theorist whose classical ideals bridged the dramatic realism of Rembrandt with the refined elegance of French academism. Born on September 11, 1641, in Liège, he was the second son of the painter Renier de Lairesse (1597–1667). De Lairesse received his initial training under his father b...