Jacobus Buys

Portrait of industrialist Jan Modderman and his wife, 1777.

Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch art collector, 1766. Now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 - 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver.

Buys was born in Amsterdam. He studied under C. Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and C. Troost, and ultimately became director of the Drawing Academy of his native city, where he died in 1801. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry, designed book-illustrations, and made copies of the works of the best masters of the seventeenth century.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BUYS, Jacobus" 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.

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