Artist: Solomon De Bray (1597 - 1664)
Nationality:Dutch
Movement: Dutch School
Media: Architecture,Painting
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Biography:
Solomon de Bray was born in Haarlem and spent most of his life there. Taught by Mannerists Cornelius van Haarlem and Hendrick Goltzius, de Bray painted mythological and religious scenes, portraits, landscapes, and genre pictures. He also created architectural drawings and detailed preparatory sketches for his paintings. Although De Bray began working in a fairly traditional style, in the 1940’s he began incorporating the more revolutionary technique of chiaroscuro, probably because of the Rembrandt’s influence. A decade later, De Bray began favoring classical compositions in the style of Pieter de Grebber. Along with Pieter Molijn, he helped to reestablish the Guild of St. Luke in 1631. He also published two books, a poetry anthology and a contemporary architecture album. In the mid-1660’s, the De Bray family was struck by the plague, killing four of their ten children, De Bray, and his wife.

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