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Jacobus Buys
Dutch painter

Jacobus Buys

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Dutch painter
A.K.A.
Jacob Buys Jacobus Buijs
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Place of death
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Age
76 years
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Scene from the Play 'Lubbert Lubbertse of de geadelde boer' by M. van Breda
 
Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel
 
Portrait de Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Jacobus Buys)
 
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Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch art collector, 1766. Now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver.

Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker. He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry, designed book-illustrations, and made copies of the works of the best masters of the seventeenth century. Buys became a member of Amsterdam's Guild of St Luke in 1750, and died in 1801.

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