{"title":"Bailly, David","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Bailly (1584-1657)\u003c\/strong\u003e was a Dutch Golden Age artist known for his still-life paintings, portraits, and self-portraits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBailly 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBailly apprenticed with a surgeon-painter Adriaan Verburg 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 travelled 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn his return voyage, Bailly worked for several German princes, including the Duke of Brunswick. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBailly is known for his vanitas paintings that suggest the transience of life with ephemeral symbols like flowers, candles, musical instruments, skulls, and bubbles. In 1648, Bailly became the head of the Leiden Guild of St. Luke. He also taught his nephews Harmen and Pieter Steenwijck to paint.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bailly-david-1584-1657-self-portrait-with-allegorical-still-life-1651","title":"Bailly, David (1584-1657) - Self-portrait with Allegorical Still Life 1651","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelf-portrait and still-life including a skull by the Dutch Golden Age painter David Bailly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis download consists of 1 image, in JPEG format, that is 600dpi and 5040 pixels wide by 3696 pixels tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe picture is out of copyright and in the public domain, so you are free to use it in whatever way you'd like, including commercial use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bailly-david\" title=\"David Bailly\"\u003eDavid Bailly\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Download - 1 image","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52965097046346,"sku":null,"price":0.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/files\/Bailly_David_1584-1657_-Self-portraitwithAllegoricalStillLife1651_main.jpg?v=1759521751"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0776\/7965\/7290\/collections\/Bailly_David_1584-1657_-_Self-portrait_with_Allegorical_Still_Life_1651-2644703.jpg?v=1759521595","url":"https:\/\/www.publicdomainimagelibrary.com\/collections\/bailly-david.oembed","provider":"Public Domain Image Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}