Dirck Ferreris

Dirck Ferreris
Allegory of Good Government, in Haarlem City Hall.
Birth name	Dirck Ferreris
Born	1639 Enkhuizen
Died	June 6, 1693(1693-06-06) (aged 59) Enkhuizen
Nationality	Netherlands
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Dirck Ferreris, Diederik, or Theodor Freres (1639–1693), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

He spent most of his life in Enkhuizen and several works of his hang in the Enkhuizen city hall. He traveled to Italy in 1666 with Adriaen Backer, and after returning to Amsterdam, he then spent some time in London working for Sir Peter Lely in 1678.^[1] According to Houbraken he specialized in decorating galleries and decorated one at Huis Honselaarsdijk and one in Amsterdam for a gentleman named Mr. Roeters. When he returned from Italy he became friends with Johannes Voorhout, with whom he practised drawing in a small group from a naked model. He told Voorhout that he had been very keen on saving money and only spent 30 guilders in his whole year in Italy, and that was the reason he couldn't spend much time with the Bentvueghels. This puzzled Houbraken, who wrote that he came from a good family and didn't need to save.^[2] In his biographical sketch of Johan van Neck, Houbraken mentions that he was a great friend of Freres and left him his papierkunst or paper-art.^[2]

References

1. ^ Dirck Ferreris in RKD
2. ^ ^{a b} (Dutch)Dirk Freres 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	Ferreris, Dirck
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Date of birth	June 6, 1634
Place of birth	Enkhuizen
Date of death	June 6, 1693
Place of death	Enkhuizen