Discover engraver (printmaker), etcher, draftsperson Johannes de Lairesse

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: Lairesse, Jan de (II)

Qualifications: engraver (printmaker), etcher, draftsperson, painter, copyist, member of family of artists

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1673-09/1673-09-24
baptized September 24, 1673 (Waller 1938)

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1716-07/1716-07-31
According to Briels 1997 he was buried 31 July 1716: 'Jean Lares ind' Noorderstr. tusschen Vyselgraft en Noorderstr. Vand'France gemeente', DTB 1232. f. 144. According to Ecartico (2021) he was buried 11 June 1748.

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Gerard de Lairesse and Maria Salme (died 1723); brother of Andreas de Lairesse (1668-1715) and Abraham de Lairesse I (1670-1727; married in Amsterdam on 5 April 1698 to Cornelia van Westhoven (1671-1742); father of Gerard de Lairesse II (1698-1746)

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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.: Lairesse, Gerard de

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.: history (genre)

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 133 (as: Jan [de Lairesse])
Kramm 1857-1864 , vol. 3 (1859)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 11 (1865), p. 38 (as: Jan de Lairesse)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 237 (as: Lairesse, Jan de)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 191 (as: Lairesse, Johannes de)
Roy 1992 , passim
Briels 1997 , p. 350
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

E. de Jongh, 'The artist's apprentice and Minerva's secret: an allegory of drawing by Jan de Lairesse', Simiolus 13 (1983), p. 201-217
M. Díaz Padrón, 'Una nueva obra de Johannes de Lairesse, la Alegoría del Dibujo', Philostrato. Revista de Historia y Arte 4 (2018), p. 73-81

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 1238: 98

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

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 2002-10-31; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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