Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1596-1667
son of Hendrick de Keyser I. Following an apprenticeship with an unidentified master in painting, he trained from 1616 to 1618 with his father in architecture. Although he ultimately followed his father and two brothers, Pieter and Willem, into service for the city of Amsterdam as city mason (1662-7), no designs for buildings by Thomas are known, with the exception of an unbuilt triumphal arch published in Salomon de Bray's Architectura moderna Related Paintings of KEYSER, Thomas de :. | Buffalo Family | The Reading | Portrait of Martin Zapater | Passion | Treffen von Marc Antonius und Kleopatra | Related Artists:
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