Discover decorative painter (of interiors), draftsperson, painter Abraham de Lairesse

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: Laires, Abraham
Lairesse, Abraham de (I)

Qualifications: decorative painter (of interiors), draftsperson, painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amsterdam (city) 1670/1670-10-02
baptized on 2 October 1670

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1727-02/1727-02-06
buried 6 February 1727. According to Bierens de Haan 1994, he was still alive on 6 March 1728.

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711) and Maria Salme (died 1723); married on 27 November 1693 in Amsterdam to Johanna van Beveren (1671-1732), also married in 1708 and 1721

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1 hit in RKDlibrary as illustrator
3 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

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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.: Elliger, Ottomar (II)
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), portrait

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

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Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p.133
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 11 (1865), p. 34 (as: Abraham de Lairesse)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 233
Bierens de Haan 1994 , p. 158, 162, 270, note 520, ill. 179-180
Briels 1997 , p. 350
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Transportakten voor 1811, 14-1-1724, 21-12-1719; DTB 1200, p. 116vo

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

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Creation date: 2003-02-03; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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