Gerard van Zyl

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Portrait of Govert Flinck with poem by Joost van den Vondel, by Gerard Pietersz van Zijl

Gerard Pieter van Zyl, Gerrit Pietersz van Zijl, or Gerards (c.1607, Haarlem – 19 December 1665, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes.^[1]

Biography

He is the best-known member of a family of painters active in the 16th and 17th centuries during the Dutch Golden Age. A pupil of Jacob Pynas in Amsterdam, he worked in London from 1639 to 1641, where he was a friend of Anthony van Dyck. His portraits were popular in his own lifetime, and according to Houbraken's biography of Jan Verkolje, he was an inspiration to aspiring portrait painters. He painted a now-lost portrait of Govert Flinck which Abraham Blooteling made into a print.

References

↑ Gerard Pietersz. van Zijl in the RKD

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Name	Zyl, Gerard van
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Short description	Dutch artist
Date of birth	1607
Place of birth
Date of death	1665
Place of death

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