Frans Decker

Portrait of Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, painted posthumously in 1787 by Wybrand Hendriks after a portrait by Decker, now lost

Frans Decker (1684, Haarlem – 1751, Haarlem), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

He was a painter whose pictures possess great merit, and are to be met with in almost every collection.[1] He is stated to have been born at Haarlem in 1684, and to have died at the same place in 1751, having been a pupil of Romeyn De Hooghe and of Bartholomeus Engels.[1][2] He painted landscapes in a very pleasing and natural style, resembling the charming productions of Ruisdael, but without the servility of an imitator.[1] He also excelled in caricature.[1]

He was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke from 1706 until his death.[2] His pupils were Cornelis van den Berg, Tako Hajo Jelgersma, and Cornelis van Noorde.[2] His portrait was engraved by his pupil Jelgersma.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bryan
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Frans Decker in the RKD

This article incorporates text from the article "DEKKER, Frans" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.