Dirck de Bray (ca. 1635 – 1694)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• According to Houbraken he was a multi-talented son and pupil of the painter and architect Salomon de Bray.
• He was known as a flower painter, but he could also sculpt.
• He became a monk in the Gaesdonck monastery near Goch.
• He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1671.
• His brother Jan became a well-known painter, and his brother Joseph was also a painter.
• His sister Cornelia married Jan Lievens.
• His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen.
• After 1678 he moved to the Gaesdonck monastery.
• The displayed painting it is a crop from: The Governors of the Guild of St. Luke, 1675 by Dirck's brother Jan de Bray.
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