David Bailly
{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter}}
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| image = David Bailly Vanitas1651.jpg
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| caption = Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols, c. 1651
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| birth_date = 1584
| birth_place = Leiden, Dutch Republic
| death_date = 1657 (age 72-73)
| death_place = Leiden, Dutch Republic
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| known_for = Painting
| training = Cornelius van der Voort
| movement = Dutch Golden Age painting
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David Bailly (1584–1657) was a Dutch Golden Age artist known for his still-life paintings, portraits, and self-portraits.
Biography
David Bailly was born in 1584 in Leiden in the Dutch Republic. The son of a Flemish immigrant, calligrapher, and fencing master, Peter Bailly, David studied with his father and artist Jacques de Gheyn II.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
Bailly apprenticed with a surgeon-painter Adriaan Verburg[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0049.htm David Bailii biography] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature in Leiden and then with Cornelius van der Voort, a portrait painter in Amsterdam. According to artist and biographer Arnold Houbraken, in the winter of 1608 Bailly traveled to Frankfurt, Nuremberg, Augsburg Hamburg, and via Tirol to Venice, and from there to Rome. On his return he spent five months in Venice, working as a journeyman where he could, before crossing the Alps again in 1609.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
On his return voyage, Bailly worked for several German princes including the Duke of Brunswick.
{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}Returning to the Netherlands in 1613, Bailly began painting still-life subjects and portraits, including self-portraits and portraits of his students and professors at the University of Leiden.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
Bailly is known for his vanitas paintings that suggest the transience of life with ephemeral symbols like flowers, candles, musical instruments, skulls, and bubbles.{{Cite web |title=David Bailly - Vanitas Still Life with Portrait |url=https://www.pubhist.com/w10239 |access-date=2023-08-15 |website=www.pubhist.com |language=en}} In 1648, Bailly became the head of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke.[https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/3626 David Bailly] in the RKD
He also taught his nephews Harmen and Pieter Steenwijck to paint.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
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Category:Dutch Golden Age painters
Category:Dutch portrait painters