David Bailly

David Bailly
Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols, c. 1651
Born	1584 Leiden, Dutch Republic
Died	1657 Leiden, Dutch Republic
Field	Painting
Training	Cornelius van der Voort
Movement	Dutch Golden Age painting

David Bailly (1584–1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Bailly was born at Leyden in the Dutch Republic, the son of a Flemish immigrant, calligrapher and fencing master, Peter Bailly. As a draftsman, David was pupil of his father and the copper engraver Jacques de Gheyn.

David Bailly apprenticed with a surgeon-painter Adriaan Verburg^[1] in Leiden and then with Cornelius van der Voort (1576–1624), a portrait painter in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken, in the winter of 1608, Bailly took his Grand Tour, travelling to Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Augsburg Hamburg, and via Tirol to Venice, and from there to Rome. On his return he spent five months in Venice, all the while working as a journeyman where he could, before crossing the alps again in 1609. On his return voyage, Bailly worked for several German princes including the Duke of Brunswick. Upon his return to the Netherlands in 1613, Bailly began painting still-life subjects and portraits, including self-portraits and portraits of his students and professors at the University of Leiden. He is known for making a number of vanities paintings depicting transience of this life, with such ephemeral symbols as flowers and candles. Bailly taught his nephews Harmen and Pieter Steenwijck.

References

1. ^ David Bailii biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

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Name	Bailly, David
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Date of birth	1584
Place of birth	Leiden, Dutch Republic
Date of death	1657
Place of death	Leiden, Dutch Republic