Ary Huybertsz Verveer (ca.1620,

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– October 7, 1680, Dordrecht), was a

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painter. According to Houbraken he was a portrait and history painter (whose work generally included many nudes), who joined the Dordrecht

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in 1646, the same year as Abraham Susenier (still life painter), Gerard de Jager (a seascape and "pond" painter), and Arnout Elsevier (a landscape and "fire" painter).Ary Huibertsz Verveer Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Houbraken took his information from his first teacher, the landscape painter Willem van Drielenburg, who was with Verveer, along with the painters Johannes Offermans and Arnoldus Verbuys, the day that Verveer's house burned down. Houbraken claimed that it was a fire hazard due to Verveer's habit of starting many paintings but rarely finishing them, so that his studio was filled with half-finished oil panels that went up like a

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(''brander''). Since the witnesses to this event were all much younger than Verveer, it is possible that they were his pupils, though Houbraken also mentioned that Offermans was a disciple of the Dordt painter Adriaen van Eemont. According to the RKD, Verveer was a portrait painter and a pupil of

Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp or Cuijp (1594–1652) was a portrait and landscape painter, best known for his portraits. He was born and died in Dordrecht, the son of the stained glass designer Gerrit Gerritsz. Cuyp, who moved to Dordrecht from Ve ...

.Ary Huybertsz Verveer
in the

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Only one work of his is registered in the RKD, a portrait of an unknown woman.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Verveer, Ary Huybertsz 1620s births 1680 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Dordrecht