Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)
Gerard ter Borch the Younger Dutch
Like the artist himself, the sitters of these paired portraits were prominent citizens in the eastern Dutch city of Deventer. Ter Borch drew on lessons he had learned as a young artist at the Spanish court, where he encountered portraits by Diego Velázquez that place black-clad figures in a sober and unadorned setting. For his likenesses of Dutch burghers, Ter Borch translated these conventions of Spanish portraiture to a much more modest and domestic scale.
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