Tibout Regters
Tibout Regters | |
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Born | 24 December 1710 |
Died | 26 January 1768 | (aged 57)
Tibout Regters(24 December 1710 – 26 January 1768) was an 18th-century portrait painter from theDutch Republic.
Biography
[edit]Regters was born inDordrecht.According to his biographerJan van Gool,his parents moved when he was two years old toArnhem,where he grew up.[1]He was first sent to learn painting from Ten Haeg, and then moved toRotterdamat age 20 to study for two years with Meyer.[1]He then moved toAmsterdamand first went to work for Wannenberg before becoming the pupil ofJan Maurits Quinkhardfor 5 years.[1]At the end of this period he was an able portrait painter, and Van Gool visited his studio in 1751 in Amsterdam where he saw a good full-length portrait of the painterLudolf Bakhuizenand a large group portrait that he was working on of the regents of the Amsterdam Almoezeniers orphanage.
According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard, and he worked in Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Arnhem and Rotterdam.[2]He died in Amsterdam.
References
[edit]- ^abc(in Dutch)Tibout Regters BiographyinNieuwe Schouburg(with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in theInstitute of Dutch History
- ^Tibout Regtersin theRKD