Gérard de Lairesse (1641 – 1711)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist.
• De Lairesse was born in Liège.
• He was the second son of painter Renier de Lairesse.
• He studied art under his father and from 1655 under Bertholet Flemalle.
• He worked in Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle for Maximilian Henry of Bavaria from 1660.
• In 1664 De Lairesse fled from Liège after an affair with two sisters, his models, led to difficulties.
• De Lairesse married a girl named Marie Salme in Visé.
• The couple settled in Utrecht.
• When his talent as an artist was discovered by the art dealer Gerrit van Uylenburgh, he moved to Amsterdam.
• De Lairesse produced paintings as decorations for the Soestdijk Palace between 1676 and 1683.
• His pupils were Philip Tideman and Louis Abry.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Rembrandt, Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse, 1665–67.
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