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Gerard ter Borch (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt tɛr ˈbɔr(ə)x]; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt tɛrˈbʏr(ə)x]), was a Dutch Golden Age painter mainly of genre subjects. [1] He influenced his fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer. [1]
The theme of men and women reading or writing letters was very popular amongst Dutch artists in the third quarter of the 17th century. The theme recurs amongst the works of Johannes Vermeer, Gabriël Metsu and, in particular, Gerard ter Borch. Due in part to the 'Great age of letter writing', the act of writing and thus reading a letter was ...
Borch, Gerard (I) ter (Zwolle 1583 – Zwolle 1662) Borch, Gerard (II) ter (Zwolle 1617 – Deventer 1681) Borch, Gesina ter (Zwolle 1633 – Deventer 1690) Borssom, Anthonie van (Amsterdam 1631 – Amsterdam 1677) Bosschaert, Abraham (Middelburg 1612 – Utrecht 1643) Bosschaert, Ambrosius (I) (Antwerp 1573 – The Hague 1621)
The Letter is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, created c. 1660-1665. The work is in the British Royal Collection. It was purchased by King George IV in 1814 from the collection of the British banker Sir Thomas Baring. Earlier, in 1805, it had been acquired by Baring's father, at a time when many Dutch paintings ...
Gemäldegalerie Berlin Copy by Charles Van Beveren, Amsterdam Museum. The Gallant Conversation is an oil-on-canvas painting from circa 1654 by Gerard ter Borch (the Younger). A late 18th century French print of the work is titled The Paternal Admonition, apparently believing it showed a father reprimanding his daughter, but modern art historians see it as a conversation between two prospective ...
Moses ter Borch was born in Zwolle as the youngest son of Gerard ter Borch the Elder and the brother of Gerard ter Borch and Gesina ter Borch, who taught him to draw and paint. [1] He died and was buried in Harwich after dying from wounds suffered in the Battle of Landguard Fort during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. [1]
Ter Borch himself made a first change in the painting by changing the gender of the figure playing the harpsichord, who was originally a young man, to a woman. This is apparent in the X-ray examinations and can also be established on the basis of a faithful copy that the painter probably himself made, which now hangs in the Stedelijk Museum, in ...
Portrait of Gerard ter Borch by his son Moses. Gerard ter Borch (1583 in Zwolle – 1662 in Zwolle), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.. According to Arnold Houbraken, who referred to him as Gerard Terburg's father, he was a good painter who had spent many years in Rome and who was the first teacher of his better known son.