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{{Short description|17th-century Dutch portrait painter}}
[[File:Thomas de Keyser - Syndics of the Amsterdam Goldsmiths Guild - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|300px| Thomas de Keyser,
'''Thomas de Keyser''' (c. 1596–1667) was a Dutch [[Portrait painting|portrait painter]]
==Biography==
[[File:Thomas de keyser, ritratto di loef vredericx, come porta stendardo, 1626, 03.jpg|thumb|300px|Portrait (detail) of Loeff Fredericx as an [[ensign]] by Thomas de Keyser (1626)]]▼
Thomas de Keyser was a son of the architect and sculptor [[Hendrik de Keyser]] and the brother of [[Pieter de Keyser|Pieter]] and [[Willem de Keyser (architect)|Willem de Keyser]]. He and his brothers were raised in a house on the [[Amsterdam]] canal [[Groenburgwal]]. In 1616 he and Pieter became apprentices of their father; in 1619 he presented his first painting, an Anatomic Lesson,<ref name="core.ac.uk">
In 1622 Thomas and his brother Pieter became member of the Guild. In 1626 the painter lived in [[Jodenbreestraat]] when he married Machtelt Andries, the daughter of a goldsmith in [[Warmoesstraat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5075/440|title=Inventarissen}}</ref> As an heir of his uncle Aert the property was sold to the Sefardic community and changed into a house synagogue.<ref>https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5062/35; https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5075/599</ref> Thomas de Keyser faced strong competition from Rembrandt, as a portrait painter and received very few commissions. In 1640 he remarried and lived at Lindengracht in the [[Jordaan]]. The couple had five children, baptized as [[Remonstrants]]. He owned a [[Petit Granit]] business from 1624 until 1654, which he sold to Pieter.<ref name="core.ac.uk"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5062/46|title = Inventarissen}}</ref> Willem, his younger brother, cooperated with the architect [[Jacob van Campen]] on sketches for the town hall, but left for England after being accused of fraud and went broke.<ref>The municipal building company The organization of Public Works in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic by G. van Essen, p. 206</ref> Thomas occasionally returned to painting: in 1652 a [[Nausicaa]] meeting [[Odyssey]] on the beach, intended for "Desolate Boedelkamer" in the town hall.<ref>Liedtke, Walter (2007). Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 393.</ref><ref>Verborgen verhalen. Wijze lessen in de decoraties van het voormalig Stadhuis van Amsterdam. Published on Jul 2, 2015. Auteurs: - Renske Cohen Tervaert, 'Verborgen verhalen' - Eric Jan Sluijter, 'Hoe Theseus werd verzekerd en Odysseus van de ondergang gered' - Jasper Hillegers, 'Verborgen verhalen ontrafeld' grafisch ontwerp: NorthernLight uitgever: Stichting Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam, p. 23</ref>
From 1662, at the age of 65, until his death he succeeded [[Daniel Stalpaert]] as chief supervisor of the construction, now the [[Paleis op de Dam]].<ref name="Cultuurarchief"> == Work ==
According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]], "[h]is portraiture is full of character and masterly in handling, and often distinguished by a rich golden glow of color and Rembrandtesque [[chiaroscuro]]. Some of his portraits are life-size, but the artist generally preferred to keep them on a considerably smaller scale, like the famous ''Four Amsterdam burgomasters assembled to receive Marie de Medici'' in 1638..."<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=De Keyser, Thomas|volume=7|page=938}}</ref> which now on display at the [[Mauritshuis]] museum in The Hague.▼
The [[Rijksmuseum]] in Amsterdam has the largest collection of paintings by de Keyser. His work can also be seen at the [[Louvre]] in Paris, the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City, the [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]] in Saint Petersburg and the [[National Gallery (London)|National Gallery]] in London, among others.
▲According to the [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]], "[h]is portraiture is full of character and masterly in handling, and often distinguished by a rich golden glow of color and Rembrandtesque [[chiaroscuro]]. Some of his portraits are life-size, but the artist generally preferred to keep them on a considerably smaller scale, like the famous ''Four Amsterdam burgomasters assembled to receive Marie de Medici'' in 1638..."<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=De Keyser, Thomas|volume=7|page=938}}</ref> which is now on display at the [[Mauritshuis]] museum in The Hague.
A contemporary namesake of the painter was T(h)omas de Keyser, Gerritsz. ([[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], 1597–1651), his cousin and a stone mason, member of the chamber of rhetoric and actor.<ref>[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/laan005lett01/laan005lett01_3794.htm Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid]</ref><ref name="core.ac.uk"/>▼
The landscape painter [[Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael]] painted a landscape as a background to one of his group portraits, burgomaster [[Cornelis de Graeff]] and his family and three persons on the back including his brother burgomaster [[Andries de Graeff]] in front of their estate near [[Soestdijk Palace|Soestdijk]].<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68835 Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204254/https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68835 |date=2016-03-03 }} at the Netherlands Institute for Art History</ref>
== Namesake ==
▲A contemporary namesake of the painter was T(h)omas de Keyser, Gerritsz. ([[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]], 1597–1651), his cousin and a stone mason, member of the chamber of rhetoric and actor.<ref>
== Gallery ==
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File:Thomas de Keyser - Portret van een vrouw.jpg| Portrait of a woman
File:A Musician and His Daughter MET DP145937.jpg|''[[A Musician and His Daughter (Metropolitan Museum of Art)|A Musician and His Daughter]]'', 1629, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Jacob van Ruisdael - Cornelis de Graeff with his Wife and Sons (ca.1660).jpg|[[Cornelis de Graeff]] with his wife [[Catharina Hooft]] and his two sons [[Pieter de Graeff|Pieter]] and [[Jacob de Graeff]] on arrival at Soestdijk. [[Jacob van Ruisdael]] and Thomas de Keyser, (1656/1660), [[National Gallery of Ireland]]
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