Discover painter Jan de Lairesse (I)

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: Lairesse, Jan Gerard de
Laires, Jan de
signed: 'Jan D: Lairesse' or 'I. Lairesse'. The name Jan Gerard only occurs at his notice of marriage in 1686.

Qualifications: painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish, South Netherlandish

Born: Luik (stad) 1651
c. 1651; at his marriage in 1686 he stated to be 35 years old (De Vries 1885).

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1724-08/1724-08-20
buried 20 August 1724 (Briels 1997)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Renier de Lairesse (1596-1667) and Catherine Taulier (died 1676), brother of Ernest de Lairesse (1636-c.1676), Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711) and Jacques de Lairesse (c. 1645-1690); married in Liége in 1667 to Maria Goswin (died 1690), father of Abraham de Lairesse II (1682-1730); married 1) to Arnou Le Maile/René la Male/Melle (1664-1703) from Paris, in the Walloon church in Amsterdam on 12 July 1686 (according to (De Vries 1885 he posted banns on that day); 2) in Amsterdam on 6 May 1707 to Jannetje Conne/Jeanne Conijn (died 1717) and 3) on 4 November 1711 in Amsterdam to Geertruij Desart (1661-1718); father of Jan Steven Laresse/Jean Estienne de Lairesse (1690-1716) and Marthe René Lares (1696-1762)

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Luik (stad)
Amsterdam (stad) 1682 - 1724
On 12 July 1686 he was living on the Nieuwe Prinsengracht at the time of his marriage; twice remaried (1707 and 1718) (Briels 1997)

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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.: flower piece, genre

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 132 (as: Jan [de Laires])
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 9 (as: Jan Gerard de Lairesse)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 233
De Maere/Wabbes et al. 1994
Briels 1997 , p. 350
Beltman et al. 2016 , p. 20-28, 168 (J. van der Veen, ''Very proud, self conceited, debauched and extravagant': Gerard de Lairesse en zijn Amsterdamse jaren')
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (II), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 135-160; p. 157
Li Weixuan, 'The Hands Behind Lairesse’s Masterpieces: Gerard de Lairesse’s Workshop Practice', Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 12/1 (2020), p. 20

Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam: DTB-registers (toegangsnummer 5001), 515: 105 (12-7-1686), 541: 210 (6-5-1707) & 555: 259 (4-11-1718)

External links: this artist in Ecartico
Weixuan 2020

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Creation date: 1992-01-11; Last modified date: 2023-05-04

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