Bartholomeus Meyburgh (1628–1708), also spelt Meijburch, Meyburch, and Meyburg, was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

s and religious works.

Biography

Bartholomeus Meyburgh was born in

Maassluis Maassluis () is a city in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality had a population of in and covered of which was water. It received city rights in 1811. History Maassluis was founded circa 1340 as a ...

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, Netherlands, probably in 1628, although some sources have suggested 1623, 1624 and 1625. His surname has been variously spelt Meijburch, Meyburch, and Meyburg. According to the painter Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719), Meyburgh was a good portrait and history painter born in "Maaslandsluis" (Maasluis), who was a friend of the painter Christoffel Pierson, who was only three years younger than he, but whom he taught to paint in 1651. Together they made a trip to Germany in 1653. During his lifetime he painted for various courts in Germany and was still alive in 1661. He worked in Maassluis until 1653, before travelling to and within Germany with his pupil Pierson, where they painted Swedish military commander

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on their return journey. Around 1661 Meyburgh moved to The Hague, where he married Anna Elisbeth Schortes in that year, and also became a member of the

Confrerie Pictura The Confrerie Pictura was a more or less academic club of artists founded in 1656 in The Hague (the Netherlands) by local art painters, who were unsatisfied by the Guild of Saint Luke there. History The guild of St. Luke in the Hague existed a ...

. The Confrerie records state that he was born in The Hague. He was registered in Germany in the years 1684 to 1689, where he worked in several courts, after which he returned to The Hague. He died in 1708 or 1709, possibly in The Hague.

Work

He is known for portraits and religious works and as a

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, and also painted animals. His style was influenced by

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portrait painter

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; other contemporaneous Dutch artists who painted in similar styles include Jacobus Levecq,

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and

Jan de Baen Jan de Baen (20 February 1633 – 1702) was a Dutch portrait painter who lived during the Dutch Golden Age. He was a pupil of the painter Jacob Adriaensz Backer in Amsterdam from 1645 to 1648. He worked for Charles II of England in his Dutch exil ...

. The Queen of England and the

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were patrons, and his work is held today in

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References

External links

Biografisch Portaal van Nederland -Bartholomeus Meyburch
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