Tibout Regters

Tibout Regters
Tibout Regters upper right in Jan van Gool'sNieuw Schouburg
Born	24 December 1710 Dordrecht,Holland,The Netherlands
Died	26 January 1768(1768-01-26)(aged 57) Amsterdam,Holland,The Netherlands

Tibout Regters(24 December 1710 – 26 January 1768) was an 18th-century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Portrait of the Mennonite minister Jan Brak and his family.

Regters was born inDordrecht.According to his biographerJan van Gool,his parents moved when he was two years old toArnhem,where he grew up.He was first sent to learn painting from Ten Haeg, and then moved toRotterdamat age 20 to study for two years with Meyer.He then moved toAmsterdamand first went to work for Wannenberg before becoming the pupil ofJan Maurits Quinkhardfor 5 years.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.He died in Amsterdam.