HELST, BARTHOLOMÆUS VAN DER

HELST, BARTHOLOMÆUS VAN DER
   one of the greatest of the Dutch portrait-painters, born at Haarlem, but spent his life in Amsterdam; he enjoyed a great reputation in his day, and many of his pictures are to be found in European galleries; his "Muster of the Burgher Guard" was considered by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be "the first picture of portraits in the world" (1613-1670).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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  • Helst — Helst, Bartholom. van der H., geb. 1613 in Harlem; Bildniß u. Geschichtenmaler der Holländischen Schule; er st. 1670 in Amsterdam …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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