David Bailly
Dutch Golden Age painter
David Bailly
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Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols, c. 1651
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1584
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1657 (age 72-73)
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Education | Cornelius van der Voort |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting |
David Bailly (1584 – 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age artist known for his still-life paintings, portraits, and self-portraits.
Biography
David Bailly was born in 1584 in Leiden in the Dutch Republic. The son of a Flemish immigrant, calligrapher, and fencing master, Peter Bailly, David studied with his father and artist Jacques de Gheyn II . [ citation needed ]
Bailly apprenticed with a surgeon-painter Adriaan Verburg [1] in Leiden and then with Cornelius van der Voort , a portrait painter in Amsterdam . According to artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken , in the winter of 1608 Bailly traveled to Frankfurt , Nuremberg , Augsburg Hamburg , and via Tirol to Venice , and from there to Rome . On his return he spent five months in Venice, working as a journeyman where he could, before crossing the Alps again in 1609. [ citation needed ]
On his return voyage, Bailly worked for several German princes including the Duke of Brunswick . [ citation needed ] Returning to the Netherlands in 1613, Bailly began painting still-life subjects and portraits, including self-portraits and portraits of his students and professors at the University of Leiden . [ citation needed ]
Bailly is known for his vanitas paintings that suggest the transience of life with ephemeral symbols like flowers, candles, musical instruments, skulls, and bubbles. [2] In 1648, Bailly became the head of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke . [3] He also taught his nephews Harmen and Pieter Steenwijck to paint. [ citation needed ]
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References
- ↑ David Bailii biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken , courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ "David Bailly - Vanitas Still Life with Portrait" . www.pubhist.com . Retrieved 2023-08-15 .
- ↑ David Bailly in the RKD
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