RAVESTEYN, Dirck de Quade van
(active c. 1676-1612)

Biography

Flemish painter. Between 1602 and 1608 he is mentioned as court painter in Prague. He executed small-scale religious paintings and painted figures for several architectural panels by Hans and Paul Vredeman de Vries. However, later he turned to mythological subjects with large dimensions under the influence of the major court painters in Prague: Bartholomeus Spranger, Hans von Aachen and Joseph Heintz.



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