Jan de Bray
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Jan de Bray was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem until the age of 60, when he went bankrupt and moved to Amsterdam.
De Bray and his wife as Ulysses and Penelope, 1668
In his family portrait depicting the banquet of Antony and Cleopatra at the moment when Cleopatra puts her earring in the wine, Jan is depicted standing on the left. In the earlier version, the sons look up to the father, and in this version, the brothers (all since deceased except for Dirck) look at Jan.
The Painter's Guild in 1675. Jan de Bray's self-portrait is the second from the left, and his brother Dirck de Bray is standing upper right.
Cleopatra puts the pearl in the wine, Royal Collection, 1652 (first version)
Joseph de Bray
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Joseph de Bray, was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Jan de Bray
…Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. His brother Dirck de Bray was a flower painter who later became a monk in the monastery at Gaesdonck near Goch. His brother Joseph was also a painter. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen and the poet Jacob Westerbaen. His sister Cornelia married…
Ode to the Herring, still life with herring and poem by Jacob Westerbaen, 1656