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VRIES, Abraham de - b. ~1590 Den Haag, d. ~1650 Den Haag - WGA

VRIES, Abraham de

(b. ~1590 Den Haag, d. ~1650 Den Haag)

Dutch portrait painter. He was a peripatetic portraitist who worked in three countries and in Dutch cities with different traditions in portraiture. He is recorded in Rotterdam (1617), Aix-en-Provence (1623), Montpellier (1625), Bordeaux (1626), Paris (1626-1627), Antwerp (1628), Paris (1628-1629), Antwerp (1632), Amsterdam (1633), Paris (1634), Antwerp (1635), Paris (1635), Rotterdam (1639-1641), and The Hague (1644-1649).

He joined the painters’ guild of The Hague in 1644 and made his will in that city in 1648. He probably died in 1649 or 1650.

In his self-portrait the artist presents himself as a learned painter, and his acquaintance with the distinguished humanist Peiresc in Aix-en-Provence lends the notion credibility. De Vries’s synthesis of Dutch and Flemish qualities bears a resemblance to that of artists working in The Hague even before he finally settled in that city.

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Portrait of a Man

It is assumed by some critics that this painting may be a self-portrait, based on some similarities with his self-portrait painted two decades earlier.

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Self-Portrait

In his self-portrait the artist presents himself as a learned painter, and his acquaintance with the distinguished humanist Peiresc in Aix-en-Provence lends the notion credibility.

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