Gerard Pietersz van Zijl
Dutch artist
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| Intro | Dutch artist | |
| A.K.A. | Geraardts Pieteresz. Zyl Gerards Pietersz. van Zyl Gerrit P. van Zyl Gerard Pietersz. van Zyll Gerard Pietersz. van Zyl Gerard Pietersz. Van Zyl | |
| A.K.A. | Geraardts Pieteresz. Zyl Gerards Pietersz. van Zyl Gerrit P. van Zyl Gerard Pietersz. van Zyll Gerard Pietersz. van Zyl Gerard Pietersz. Van Zyl | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| is | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | Leiden | |
| Death | 19 December 1665Amsterdam |
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Gerrit or Gerard Pietersz van Zijl, also van Zyl / Zyll or Geerards (c.1607, Leiden – 19 December 1665, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes.
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He is the best-known member of a family of painters active in the 16th and 17th centuries during the Dutch Golden Age. A pupil of Jacob Pynas in Amsterdam, he worked in London from 1639 to 1641, where he was a friend of Anthony van Dyck. His portraits were popular in his own lifetime, and according to Houbraken's biography of Jan Verkolje, he was an inspiration to aspiring portrait painters. He painted a now-lost portrait of Govert Flinck which Abraham Blooteling made into a print.