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Biography
Gysbrecht Thys (1617 in Antwerp – 1684 in Antwerp), was a Flemish Baroque painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was born in Antwerp and became a portrait painter in the style of Anthony van Dyck. Houbraken took his information from Cornelis de Bie's Het Gulden Cabinet, p 412.
According to the RKD He was baptized in the St.Jacobskerk in 1617 and married Catharina Lodewijcx in 1650. According to De Bie he was still alive and living in Antwerp at the time of publication (1661). No known works survive - all portraits previously attributed to him have since been reattributed to others. The later biographer Jacob Campo Weyerman claimed he saw a few of his paintings in Breda and could vouch for their close similarity to Van Dijck. Weyerman especially admired a set of portraits ("to the knee") of the Flemish painter Jan van Kessel and his wife.
Works
An oil on canvas (original canvas) Bacchanale signed and dated '… THYS F. 1653' has been sold in Paris. It is virtually the sole painting of the artist with the exception of the one - the location of which is unknown - of which the Louvre has kept a photo.
