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[[File:Thomas de Keyser - Syndics of the Amsterdam Goldsmiths Guild - Google Art Project.jpg|thumbnail|300px| Thomas de Keyser - Syndics of the [[Amsterdam]] [[Goldsmith]]s [[Guild]] ]]
'''Thomas de Keyser''' (c. 1596–1667) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[
==Biography==
In 1626 the painter lived in [[Jodenbreestraat]] when he married Machtelt Andries, the daughter of a goldsmith in [[Warmoesstraat]].<ref>https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5075/440</ref> As a heir of his uncle Aert the property was sold to the Sefardic community and changed into a house synagogue. 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 two sons Pieter and Thomas, both baptized as [[Remonstrants]], in 1645 and 1649. He owned a [[Petit Granit]] business from 1624 until 1654, which he sold to Pieter.<ref>https://archief.amsterdam/archief/5062/46</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.<ref>The municipal building company The organization of Public Works in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic by G. van Essen, p. 206</ref> Thomas returned to painting: in 1652 a [[Nausicaa]] meeting [[Odyssey]] on the beach, destined 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> The landscape painter [[Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael]] painted a landscape as a background to one of his group portraits, mayor [[Cornelis de Graeff]] in front of his estate near Soestdijk.<ref>[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/68835 Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History</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">[http://www.absofacts2.com/kunstenaars/keyserthomasde1596.htm Cultuurarchief]</ref><ref>[http://www.collective-action.info/sites/default/files/webmaster/_JIW_LIT_Gea-van-Essen_Daniel-Stalpaert.pdf Daniel Stalpaert (1615-1676) stadsarchitect van Amsterdam en de Amsterdamse stadsfabriek in de periode 1647 tot 1676 Gea van Essen, p. 107]</ref> He was buried in the [[Zuiderkerk]], like his father.
== Work ==
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