Tibout Regters (24 December 1710 – 26 January 1768) was an 18th-century portrait painter from the

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Biography

Regters was born in

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. According to his biographer

Jan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.

, his parents moved when he was two years old to

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, where he grew up.Tibout Regters Biography
in ''Nieuwe Schouburg'' (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the ''Institute of Dutch History'' He was first sent to learn painting from Ten Haeg, and then moved to

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at age 20 to study for two years with Meyer. He then moved to

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and first went to work for Wannenberg before becoming the pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard for 5 years. At the end of this period he was an able portrait painter, and Van Gool visited his studio in 1751 in Amsterdam where he saw a good full-length portrait of the painter

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at the

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in the

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He died in Amsterdam.

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