Ary de Vois

Portrait of the writer Adriaan van Beverland with a wanton woman, ca 1680.

Ary de Vois (1632–1635, Leiden - July 1680, Leiden^[1]) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

Ary de Vois was the son of Alewijn de Vois from Utrecht, who was organist in the Pieterskerk, Leiden, in 1635. Ary became a pupil in Utrecht of Nikolaus Knüpfer, who also taught Jan Steen. Ary then returned to Leiden to study with Abraham van den Tempel, who lived there between 1648 and 1660. De Vois joined the Leiden Guild of St Luke on 16 October 1653, paying dues until 1677. He was dean in 1662-64, headman in 1664-65 and dean again from 1667-68. He married Maria van der Vecht, on 5 February 1656.

According to Houbraken his marriage caused a lull in his production, especially when he moved to Warmond where he took up fishing as a hobby. He had to move back to Leiden in order to keep his production levels high^[2].

References

1. ^ Vois, Ary de at the RKD databases
2. ^ Ary de Vois 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	Vois, Ary De
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Date of death	1680
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