Walther Damery
Flemish Baroque painter
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| Intro | Flemish Baroque painter | |
| Places | Netherlands | |
| was | Painter | |
| Work field | Arts | |
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| Birth | 1 January 1610, Liège, Arrondissement of Liège, Liège, Wallonia | |
| Death | 1 January 1678Liège, Arrondissement of Liège, Liège, Wallonia (aged 68 years) |
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Walther Damery (1610, Liège – after 1672, Liège), was a Southern Netherlandish Baroque painter.
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According to Houbraken he was known along with Leonard van Orley for emblems in the manner of Jacob Cats.
According to the RKD he was the teacher of his younger brother Jacques Damery and Gilles Hallet. He travelled to England in 1639 and the next year he left for Italy and on the way back in 1643 he was captured by pirates and taken to Algiers. He escaped and in 1644 made an altarpiece for the Cathedral of the southern French town Toulon. He then travelled north and stayed in Paris until 1646 before returning to Liege, where he took on pupils. He is known for portraits and religious works, of which one is dated 1672.
Cupola Carmel Church, Paris
Library Alden Biesen Castle
Virgin and Saint Dominic, Alden Biesen Castle
Edmund Von Bocholtz, RMFAB, Brussels