![Jan de Bray - The de Bray Family (The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra) - WGA03122](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Jan_de_Bray_-_The_de_Bray_Family_%28The_Banquet_of_Antony_and_Cleopatra%29_-_WGA03122.jpg)
Joseph de Bray (1630,
Haarlem
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– 1664,
Haarlem
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), was a
Dutch Golden Age
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painter.
Biography
![Joseph de Bray - Still-Life](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Joseph_de_Bray_-_Still-Life.jpg)
According to the RKD he was born into an artistic family as the son of
Salomon de Bray
Salomon de Bray (1597 – 11 May 1664) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and architect.
Biography
De Bray was born in Amsterdam, but established himself in Haarlem before 1617, where he is registered as being a member of the schutterij that ye ...
and Anna Westerbaen (sister of the painter Jan and the poet
Jacob Westerbaen
Ridder Jacob Westerbaen (7 September 1599 – 31 March 1670), ''heer'' (squire) of Brantwyck-en-Ghybelant, was a Dutch poet.
Life
Westerbaen was born in The Hague, the son of a rope maker, and was initially schooled in the Staten-College, then ...
).
[Joseph de Bray]
in the RKD
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He was the brother of the painters
Jan
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,
Dirck
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*Dirck Barendsz (1534–1592), Dutch Renaissance painter from Amsterdam
*Dirck Bleker (1621–1702), Dutch Golden Age painter
*Dirck Coornhert (1522–1590), Dutch writer, philosopher, ...
, and Jacob de Bray.
[
He is known for fruit and flower still life paintings and some italianate landscapes.][ He died young 4 days after his father, probably from an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem.
]
References
Joseph de Bray
on Artnet
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1630 births
1664 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Dutch still life painters
Artists from Haarlem