Identifier: dictionaryofpain02brya (find matches)
Title: Dictionary of painters and engravers
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bryan, Michael, 1757-1821 Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942
Subjects: Painters Engravers
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he was instructed.His pictures bear date from 1640 to 1669, and repre-sent fruit, flowers, vases and ornaments of gold andsilver, musical instruments, and similar objects ofstill-life. He was a perfect master of chiaroscuro.He particularly excelled in imitating the transparentclearness of glass and crjstal, which he was fondof introducing into his pictures. His paintingswere so superior to those of every artist that hadpreceded liirn, in similar subjects, that they wereanxiously sought after by the most distinguishedpersons of his time, and were purchased at largeprices. They are still helil in high estimation.Being obliged to leave Utrecht during the troubleswhich took place in Holland in 1671, he tookrefuge at Antwerp, where ho died in 1G74. DE HEERE, Lucas, a Flemish historical andportrait painter, who was bom at Ghent in 15.34,was the son of Jan De Heere, a sculptor andarchitect, and of Anna De Smytere, an excellentpainter of miniatures. He studied for some time LUCAS 1>1 HKHKH
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