Son and pupil of Hendrick de Keyser (1565-1621), the outstanding Dutch sculptor, Thomas de Keyser was municipal architect to the City of Amsterdam from 1662 until his death (he added the cupola to van Campen's Town Hall), but he is better known as a portrait painter. He was indeed, Amsterdam's leading portraitist before being overtaken in popularity by Rembrandt in the 1630s. His life-size portraits look stiff compared with Rembrandt's and he is more attractive and original on a small scale. Constantin Huygens and His Clerk (National Gallery, London, 1627) is an excellent example of one of his small portraits of full-length figures in an interior, forerunners of the conversation pieces. His small equestrian portraits were also a new type (Pieter Schout, Rijksmuseum, 1660).
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Keyser, Thomas de
Militia Company of Captain Allaert Cloeck
Date: 1632 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Keyser, Thomas de
Syndics of the Amsterdam Goldsmiths Guild
Date: 1627 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Keyser, Thomas de
Portrait of a Gentleman
Date: c.1632 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on wood
Keyser, Thomas de
Portrait of a Man
Date: 1632 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on wood
Keyser, Thomas de
Constantijn Huygens and his Clerk
Date: 1627 Movement: Baroque Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on wood
Keyser, Thomas de
Apostle St John
Date: 1630 Movement: Baroque Theme: Saints Technique: Oil on canvas