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Gerard ter Borch
Self portrait of Gerard ter Borch (1668)
Born December 1617
Zwolle, Overijssel, Dutch Republic
Died 8 December 1681 (aged 64)
Deventer, Overijssel, Dutch Republic
Nationality Dutch
Known for Painting
Gerard ter Borch
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Gerard ter Borch (Dutch: [!!"r#rt t!r "b$rx]; or Terburg,
Dutch: [t!r"b%rx]; December 1617 8 December 1681) was
a Dutch genre painter, who lived in the Dutch Golden
Age.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
3 References
4 Sources
5 Further reading
6 External links
Biography
Gerard ter Borch was born in December 1617 in Zwolle in
the province of Overijssel in the Dutch Republic.
He received an excellent education from his father Gerard
ter Borch the Elder, also an artist, and developed his talent
very early. The inscription on a study of a head proves
that Ter Borch was at Amsterdam in 1632, where he
studied possibly under Willem Cornelisz Duyster or Pieter
Codde. Duyster's influence can be traced in a picture bearing the date 1638, in the lonides Bequest (Victoria
and Albert Museum). In 1634 he studied under Pieter de Molijn in Haarlem. A record of this Haarlem period
is the Consultation (1635) at the Berlin Gallery.
In 1635 he was in London, and subsequently he travelled in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. His sister
Gesina also became a painter. It is certain that he was in Rome in 1641, when he painted the small portraits
on copper of Jan Six and A Young Lady (Six Collection, Amsterdam). In 1648 he was at Mnster during the
meeting of the congress which ratified the treaty of peace between the Spaniards and the Dutch, and
executed his celebrated little picture, painted upon copper, of the assembled plenipotentiariesa work
which, along with the a portrait of a Man Standing, now represents the master in the national collection in
London. The picture was bought by the marquess of Hertford at the Demidoff sale for 1280, and presented to
the National Gallery by Sir Richard Wallace, at the suggestion of his secretary, Sir John Murray Scott.
At this time Ter Borch was invited to visit Madrid, where he received employment and the honour of
knighthood from Philip IV, but, in consequence of an intrigue, it is said, he was obliged to return to the
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An officer dictating a letter
(c. 1657-1658). Oil on wood,
41 " 28 cm. National
Museum, Warsaw
The letter by Gerard ter
Borch (c. 1655) Oil on panel,
56 x 46,5 cm. Alte
Pinakothek, Munich
Netherlands. He seems to have resided for a time in Haarlem; but he finally
settled in Deventer, where he became a member of the town council, as
which he appears in the portrait now in the gallery of the Hague. He died at
Deventer in 1681.
Works
Ter Borch is a significant painter of genre
subjects. He is known for his rendering of
texture in draperies, for example in The
Letter and in The Gallant Conversation,
engraved by Johann Georg Wille.
[1]
Ter Borch's works are comparatively rare;
about eighty have been catalogued. Six of
these are at the Hermitage, six at the Berlin
Museum, five at the Louvre, four at the
Dresden Museum, three at the Getty Center,
[2]
and two at the Wallace
Collection. A pair of portraits are located at the Corcoran Gallery in
Washington D.C., highlighted in 2010 by Blake Gopnik.
[3]
The artist's painting The Suitor's Visit, c. 1658, oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm
(31# " 29 9/16 in.) in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the
cover of Marilyn Stokstad's second edition of Art History.
References
1. ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art page (http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/17630.html?mulR=7480).
2. ^ "Gerard ter Borch (Getty Museum)" (http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=380). Getty.edu.
7 May 2009. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
3. ^ Gopnik, Blake (28 December 2010). "Dutch Painter Gerard ter Borch: Putting people and things in perspective"
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/27/AR2010122703717.html). The Washington
Post.
Sources
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed.
(1911). Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Further reading
Gerard Terburg (Ter Borch) et sa famille, by Emile Michel (Paris, 1887)
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Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Gerard ter
Borch II.
Wikisource has original
text related to this article:
Old Dutch and Flemish
Masters. Gerard
Terburg
Der knstlerische Entwickelungsgang des C. Ter Borch, by Dr W Bode (Berlin, 1881)
Matres d'autre fois, by Eugne Fromentin (4th ed., Paris, 1882)
External links
Gerard ter Borch II
(http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_artists/00017094?
lang=en) at the website of Rijkmuseum Amsterdam
Works and literature on Gerard ter Borch
(http://www.pubhist.com/person/165/gerard-ter-borch)
Vermeer and The Delft School
(http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/65202/rec/17), an
exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which
contains material on Gerard ter Borch (see index)
The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
(http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/121680), an
exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which
contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat. no. 1)
Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain,
and Great Britain
(http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/74278/rec/1), a
collection catalog fully available online as a PDF, which contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat.
no. 33-34)
Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage
(http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/59153/rec/1), an
exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which
contains material on Gerard ter Borch (cat. no. 3-4)
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