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| De Bray was a Dutch family of artists. Salomon de Bray was the son of Simon de Bray, who moved to Holland from Aelst in the Catholic southern Netherlands. Salomon was a man of versatile talents, with interests ranging from painting to poetry and urban planning. He married in 1625 and three of his sons became artists: Jan de Bray, Dirck de Bray, an engraver and painter, and Joseph de Bray, a painter of still-lifes. Jan de Bray's Banquet of Anthony and Cleopatra (1669; Manchester,Currier Gallery of Art) is generally thought to depict his parents as Anthony and Cleopatra and himself and his siblings as their attendants. During the plague epidemic in Haarlem in 1664, Salomon de Bray, two of his sons and two daughters died.Salomon was a painter of biblical and allegorical scenes, who settled in Haarlem c. 1625. He was the pupil of Goltzius, whose manner he occasionally imitated, but his portraits, like those by his son and pupil Jan, are often close to Hals. He wrote a Book 'Architecture Moderna' (1631), describing the buildings of Hendrick de Keyser. He was a member of the civic guard company of St Adriaen in Haarlem, where he remained until his death.He was a sensitive and intelligent man who played an important role in various cultural projects and institutions in the city. In 1627 he was paid for sketches of the Zeylpoort in Haarlem; he co-founded the Haarlem Guild of St Hubert; in 1631 he helped reform the Haarlem Guild of St Luke, serving on its executive committee from 1633 to 1640; in 1634 he supervised the repairs to an organ in a Haarlem church; and he took an interest in many architectural projects for the city, contributing, among other things, a plan for the enlargement of the city and models and drawings for the Nieuwe Kerk. In 1644-455 he was summoned to Nijmegen as a consultant architect to supervise the alterations to an orphanage and an old people's home, and in 1649-50 he contributed to the painted decoration of the Huis ten Bosch outside the Hague. |
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