January Bray

1627 (age 70)

Haarlem, North Holland, Netherlands

January de Bray (ca1627 – April 4, 1697), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Houbraken called January the "pearl in Haarlem"s crown". Houbraken also mentioned some black and red chalk drawings by him that he saw at the Amsterdam home of Isaak del Court. He spent most of his career working in Haarlem, where he was for many years dean of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter January Westerbaen and the poet Jacob Westerbaen. De Bray survived most of his family during an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem in 1664. In 1689 he was declared bankrupt as a Haarlem citizen and moved to Amsterdam, where he died, though he was buried in Haarlem.

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According to Houbraken he was the most famous pupil of his father, the architect and poet Salomon de Bray.

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January de Bray (ca1627 – April 4, 1697), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Houbraken called January the "pearl in Haarlem"s crown". Houbraken also mentioned some black and red chalk drawings by him that he saw at the Amsterdam home of Isaak del Court.

He spent most of his career working in Haarlem, where he was for many years dean of the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke.

His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter January Westerbaen and the poet Jacob Westerbaen. De Bray survived most of his family during an outbreak of the plague in Haarlem in 1664.

In 1689 he was declared bankrupt as a Haarlem citizen and moved to Amsterdam, where he died, though he was buried in Haarlem.

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Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke.

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