biography
| name: |
Terborch or Terburg, Gerard
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pronunciation:
[terbaw(r)kh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1617–81)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Zwolle, The Netherlands. He studied at Haarlem, and travelled widely in Europe, before settling at Deventer in 1654, where he became burgomaster. He worked mostly on a small scale, producing genre pictures and fashionable portraits, but is best known for his painting of ‘The Peace of Münster’ (1648, National Gallery, London). |
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