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Isaack Luttichuys (1616–1673)
A painter principally of portraits, and occasionally of still lifes,
Luttichuys was baptised at the Dutch church Austin Friars, London, where
he probably first worked. There he made his will, and then removed to
Amsterdam where he is said to have originally come from. He must have
been in Amsterdam, by 1638 as he painted a portrait of the mother (Anne
Blaeu) of Dutch poet and Amsterdam resident, Pieter C. Hooft, which
bears that year; a painting which also reveals a Dutch training. His
portraits and still lifes, mostly fruit and vanitas, were painted in
the style of Pieter Claesz, but heavier in tone. He seems to have had
financial worries for in 1659, he owed money to a framer. In 1660, he
painted the portraits of Charles I and his two brothers Jacob and Hendrik
in Breda. Still with financial woes, in 1668 he had to pledge many of
his paintings and other belongings to honour a debt. He was the brother
of the more renowned artist, Simon Luttichuys. Isaack died at Amsterdam.
Cornelis van Dalen, among others, made engravings after him.
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