Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson David Bailly

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson, miniaturist painter, engraver (printmaker), court painter
worked for the Duke of Brunswick and the counts of Stirum, Lippe, Schaumburg and Oldenburg

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Leiden (city) 1584

Deceased: Leiden (city) 1657-10-24
died c. 24 October 1657; his demise was entered in the parish register of the Pieterskerk on 5 November 1657 (De Baar 1973)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Pieter Bailly (c. 1544-c. 1608), calligrapher and fencing-master from Antwerp and Willemijne Wolphertsdr. (died 1604). Married in Leiden on 3 May 1642 to Agneta van Swanenburgh (died 1670). Uncle of Harmen and Pieter van Steenwyck, who also were his apprentices.

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12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
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1 hit in RKDtechnical as artist

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Leiden (stad) 1584 - 1602
apprenticed by Jacob de Gheyn and Adriaen van der Burch. Left in 1602 with his father for Amsterdam
Amsterdam (stad) 1602
apprentice of Cornelis van der Voort, with whom he worked and lived untill 1608
Oldenburg (Niedersachsen) 1608
Hamburg (stad) 1608 - 1609
c. 1608-1609; worked here for a year (Gerson 1942/1983, p. 204). Travelled from Hamburg to Frankfurt, Nürnberg, Augsburg across Tirol to Venice (Houbraken 1718; Gerson 1942/1983, p. 260)
Frankfurt am Main
Neurenberg
Augsburg
Tirol (deelstaat)
Venetië
He stayed twice in Venice, in or around 1610 (Orlers 1641; Houbraken 1718; Meijer 1991A)
Rome 1610
visited Venice and Rome; left this town in 1610 (Houbraken 1718; Gerson 1942/1983, p. 204)
Venetië 1610
stayed here for five months (Houbraken 1718-1721)
Frankfurt am Main 1611 - 1613
Braunschweig
Leiden (stad) 1616 - 1657
First mentioned in Leiden on 25 April 1616. From c. 1642 Bailly took part at the preperations of the foundation of the St. Luke's guild in Leiden and became its dean (for the first time) in 1648 (Saur 1992). Married in 1642; made his 1st will on 29 August 1644 with his wife and his 2nd on 18 April 1657, while being ill in bed (Obreen vol. 5 [1882-1883], p. 41)
Kopenhagen 1627
possibly; Gerson supposed Bailly was in 1627 in Copenhagen, because he painted prince Ulrik that year and there is also a portrait of Christian IV fromaround this time (Gerson 1942/1983, p. 461-462)

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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.: Burch, Adriaen van der
Gheyn, Jacques de (II)
Voort, Cornelis van der
is thought to have been a pupil of his father, Pieter Bailly, previously (Houbraken 1718)
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Adriaenssen, Niclaes
Potter, Pieter
Steenwijck, Harmen
Steenwijck, Pieter
Influenced by In contrast with ‘follower of’, we speak of ‘influenced by’ when an artist was influenced outside the context of an educational setting or servile following. An artist can be influenced by several artists at once, or in succession. In addition, there may be question of a transition to a personal style which may demonstrate development.: Goltzius, Hendrick
Rembrandt
Bray, Salomon de
Peschier, N.L.
Willigen, Pieter van der
Grebber, Pieter de
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Heem, Jan Davidsz. de
Denens, Jan

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.: portrait, vanitas (still life), game piece (still life), animal painting (genre)
A hunting still-life of 1616 was seen by Bredius before 1915 in a private collection in Baarn (Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 31).

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Sint-Lucasgilde (Leiden)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 12 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Orlers 1641 , p. 371-372
Meyssens 1649 , non paged
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1, p. 118-119 (as: David Bailii)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 2 (1854), p. 51-52
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 5 (1882-1883), p. 41, 172, 187, 188, 196, 242
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 47-48 (as: David Bailly)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 2 (1908), p. 372 (as: Bailly, David)
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 1 (1949), p. 77-78
Ekkart/Wurfbain 1976 , p. 111 (M.L. Wurfbain)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 15
Haak 1984 , p. 224 en p. 266
Meijer 1991A , p. 88
Saur 1992- , vol. 6 (1992), p. 320-321
Briels 1997 , p. 297
Horn 2000 , p. 225, 252
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 30-31
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

W.H.J. Weale, 'Notes on Two Dutch Painters', The Burlington Magazine 12 (1907), p. 163
K. Boström, 'David Baillys stilleben', Konsthistorisk tidskrift 18 (1949), p. 99-110
J. Bruyn, 'David Bailly, "fort bon peintre en pourtraicts et en vie coye"', Oud-Holland 66 (1951), p. 148-164 and 212-227
N. Popper-Voskuil, 'Selfportraiture and vanitas still-life painting in 17th-century Holland in reference to David Bailly's vanitas oeuvre', Pantheon 31 (1973), p. 58-74
P.J.M. de Baar, 'Het overlijden van David Bailly', Oud Holland 87 (1973), p. 239-240
P.J.M. de Baar, 'Van Constschilder tot Schafmeester', Oud Holland 89 (1975), p. 63-64

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Archive location: fichescollectie Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
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Creation date: 1991-11-20; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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