Historical FigureMale
Gerard de Lairesse
1641 – 1711
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryGerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. De Lairesse was influenced by the Perugian Cesare Ripa and French classicist painters such as Charles le Brun, Simon Vouet and authors such as Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine. His importance grew in the period following the death of Rembrandt. His treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701), based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century painters.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
September 11, 1640
Liège
Date of death
July 28, 1711
Amsterdam
Citizenship
Dutch Republic
Occupations & fields
painterart historianprintmakerdecoratorgraphic artistart theorist
Notable works
The Banquet of CleopatraAchilles Discovered among the Daughters of LycomedesThe Glorification of Stadholder-King William III (1650-1702)
- Field and occupation
- Holandský malíř a autor teoretických publikací o umění.
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