Discover painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors) Jan de Braij

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: Braij, Jan Salomonsz. de
Bray, Jan Salomonsz. de
Bray, Jan de
usually signed 'JdBraij' (communication J. Giltaij, July 2014)

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, decorative painter (of interiors), miniaturist painter, print artist, architect, member of family of artists

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Haarlem (city) 1626/1627
probably 1626 or 1627 (Giltaij 2017A, p. 9)

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1697/1697-04-04
died in Amsterdam but was buried on 4 April 1697 in Haarlem

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of the painter Salomon de Bray and Anna Westerbaen, brother of the painters Jan, Jozef and Dirck de Bray, and Cornelia de Bray, who was married to Jan Lievens in 1648; The poet Jacob Westerbaen was his uncle. He was married 1668 to 1) Maria Jacobsdr. van Hees (died 1669), who gave him a son (who died 1680), 2) to Margaretha de Meyer in 1672 (died 1674) and 3) in Haarlem on 30 January 1678 to Victoria Magdalena Stalpaert van der Wiele (died 1680), parents of Jan Lucas (born 1678).

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18 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
763 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
1 hit in RKDtechnical as artist

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Haarlem (stad) 1648 - 1689
his earliest dated work is a drawing from 1648 and a painting from 1652; was declared bankrupt in April 1689 as a citizen of Haarlem
Amsterdam (stad) 1688 - 1697
worked in Amsterdam on a project for freshwater basins near the Amstel; became a citizen of the city in 1692; De Braij was probably Catholic, especially since his three wives were too

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Bray, Salomon de
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Brey, Hendrick
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Sanders, Alexander

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: peasant genre, history (genre), portrait, landscape (genre), architecture (genre), interior view

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Haarlem)
'vinder' of the Guild in 1667, dean 1671-2, 1676, 1681, 1684-5

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 18 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 176 (wrongly as: Jakob de Bray)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1855), p. 1210
Van der Willigen 1870 , p. 91
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 174-175, vol. 3 (1911), p. 38-39
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 4 (1910), p. 555
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 46
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 3 [1950], p. 191-194
Witt Checklist 1978
Miedema 1980
Haak 1984 , p. 379-380
Briels 1997 , p. 305
Saur 1992- , vol. 14 (1996), p. 31 (author: R.E.O. Ekkart)
Blankert 1999 , p. 276, 278 (J. Giltaij, 'Jan de Braij' [biography])
Biesboer/Köhler et al. 2006 , p. 99-363, 116-120 (I. van Thiel-Stroman, Irene, 'Biographies 15th-17th century')
Czére et al. 2007 , p. 179-181 (J. Giltaij, 'Jan de Braij. View of Ockenburg near Loosduinen')
Van Eck 2008 , p. 81-109
Brosens/Kelchtermans/Van der Stighelen 2012 , p. 77-84 (R.E.O. Ekkart, 'Dutch family ties: painter families in seventeenth-century Holland')
Buijsen/Dumas/Manuth 2012 , p. 365-372 (Chr.T. Seifert, ''in een stuck ende van ter seyden geschildert’: Jan de Bray’s portrait of the artist's parents')
Giltaij 2017A
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

C.H. Collins Baker, 'Signed Jan de Bray and Pieter Claesz in the National Gallery', The Burlington Magazine 21 (1912), p. 53
J.W. von Moltke, 'Jan de Bray', Haerlem jaarboek 1937, p. 33ff
M. Walicki, 'Nieznany obraz Jana de Bray', Roeznik MNW I (1938), p. 135-138 (M. Walicki, 'Un tableau inconnu de Jean de Bray', Annuaire du Musée National de Varsovie, 1938, p. 135)
J.W. von Moltke, 'Jan de Bray', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11-12 (1938-1939), p. 421-523
J.W. von Moltke, 'Salomon de Bray', Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11-12 (1938-1939), p. 309-420
V. Bloch, 'Die Haarlemer Klassizisten', Oud-Holland 57 (1940), p. 14-21
A. van der Marel, 'De kunstschilders De Bray en hun familie', De Nederlandsche Leeuw 81 (1964), p. 6-26
E.R.M. Taverne, 'Salomon de Bray's ontwerp voor de drinkhoorn van Het Loffelijke Gilde van St. Hubert te Haarlem', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 23 (1972), p. 261-272
R.E.O. Ekkart., 'Het portret van Abraham Casteleyn en zijn vrouw', De boekenwereld 1 (1984-1985), p. 13-15
J. Giltaij en F. Lammerse, 'Maintaning a studio archive. Drawn copies by the De Braij Family', Master Drawings 39 (2001), p. 367-394, afb.
R.E.O. Ekkart, '"Wat is den mens alleen", Jan de Braij', in: Voor Dick bij zijn afscheid [Festschrift Dick Dolman], The Hague (Letterkundig Museum) 2006, p. 12-13
'Salomon de Bray en zonen'. Kunstschrift (Openbaar Kunstbezit) 2007/1 [special issue De Bray]
P. Biesboer, 'Twee portretjes door Jan de Bray', Haerlem Jaarboek 2011, p. 64-75
J. Veith, Memorializing the past: Jan de Bray and the construction of identity in seventeenth-century Haarlem, diss. New York University 2011

J. Veith, Jan de Braij in perspective, PhD in progress ( IFA/NYU, M. Westermann) Art Bulletin 90/2 (June 2008), p. 330

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PDO-materiaal ook in een map: Bray, de (familie)

Project: Inventory Decorative Interior Paintings in the Netherlands (1600-1940)

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1991-11-25; Last modified date: 2023-08-06

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