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Louis de Deyster (1656 – 18 December 1711), also known as Lodewyk Deyster, was a

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

artist and maker of musical instruments. His baroque paintings show a clear influence of Italian masters like Giordano,

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Barocci Federico Barocci (also written ''Barozzi'')(c. 1535 in Urbino – 1612 in Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio. His work was highly esteemed and i ...

and southern Dutch painters like Rubens,

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and Boekhorst. His daughter, Anne de Deyster, born in 1696, also became a painter and maker of musical instruments.

Biography

Deyster was born in 1656 in

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. He was a scholar of Jan Maes, a respectable artist of that city. From 1682 to 1688, he lived and worked in Italy, and when he returned to his native Bruges, he brought with him a flamboyant Roman Baroque style. He was of a deeply religious temper and his character was reflected in his choice of subjects. He painted many pictures for the churches of his native city. His prints, all religious subjects, share with his paintings high drama and energy, with protagonists arranged in complex poses. Just as de Deyster applied his paint with freedom and spontaneity, so did he etch the plate. In the Church of St James at Bruges, there are three fine paintings by Deyster representing the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, and the death of the Virgin. In the Church of St Anne, also in Bruges, there is a work on the Martydom of St Sebastian. PM 132643 B Lembeke.jpg, Lembeke Hagar in de woestijn, RP-P-BI-7041.jpg, Hagar Kruisiging-Dedeyster.JPG, Crucifixion (Kortrijk) Engelpiëta, circa 1651 - circa 1700, Groeningemuseum, 0041196000.jpg, Pietà (Bruges)

References

* *''Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical'' By Michael Bryan, pp. 209–210

External links

Works of Lodewyk Deyster at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Artists from Bruges 17th-century Flemish painters 1656 births 1711 deaths Businesspeople from Bruges {{Flemish-painter-stub