painted Mother Combing the Hair of Her Child. in 1652  Related Paintings of Gerard ter Borch the Younger :. | Portrait of Gerard Abrahamsz. van der Schalcke (1609-1667 | Seated girl in peasant costume, probably Gesina (1631-90), the painter's half-sister. | Self-portrait. | Paternal Admonition | Portrait of Aletta Pancras (1649-1707). |
Related Artists:
Manohar
ca.mid-1560s-1620
COCK, Paul de
Flemish painter (1724-1801).
SEGHERS, Gerard
Flemish Baroque Era Painter, 1591-1651 Flemish painter, dealer and collector, active also in Italy and Spain. He grew up in Antwerp, a city that had only recently been liberated from the rebels by the Spanish troops. His father, a keeper of a wine tavern, originally had Calvinist sympathies but returned to the Catholic faith after 1585. Gerard possibly trained, as did afterwards his younger brother Jan Baptist Seghers, who later became a goldsmith, with Gaspar de Crayer (b 1551), the father of the well-known painter of the same name. At the age of 12 Seghers was listed as a pupil in the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp; the documents, unfortunately, fail to mention the name of his teacher. Florent Le Comte (1699) called him a pupil of Abraham Janssen