Jan Salomonsz de Bray (c. 1627 – 1697),

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam.
• He was the most famous pupil of his father, the architect and poet Salomon de Bray.
• His brother Dirck de Bray was a flower painter who later became a monk.
• His brother Joseph was also a painter.
• His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen and the poet Jacob Westerbaen.
• His sister Cornelia married Jan Lievens.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Portrait of the Artist's Parents, Salomon de Bray and Anna Westerbaen, 1664. 
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