Barend Graat (21 September 1628, Amsterdam - 4 November 1709, Amsterdam)[1], was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
According to Houbraken, who only saw his etchings, Graat learned to paint from his uncle Hans. Though he never travelled to Italy, he became proficient in making small Italianate landscapes and genre pieces in the manner of Pieter van Laer.[2] He signed his works B. Graat fecit.[2] He was quite good at painting farm animals, and taught the painter Johann Heinrich Roos. He lived to the great age of 81 and was active as a decoration painter, painting Grisailles and over-the-mantel pieces for the regent families of Amsterdam, many of which survive today.[1] His nephew Matthijs Pool (1676-ca.1732) engraved drawings that he made of ivory sculptures by Francis de Bossuit and published these in 1727.[1]
The Amsterdams Historisch Museum has an Allegory of Care painting in their collection from the former Old Men's Almshouse, based on an Emblem by Cesare Ripa.[3]