# VRIES, Abraham de [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1590–1650 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch portrait painter. He was a peripatetic portraitist who worked in three countries and in Dutch cities with different traditions in portraiture. He is recorded in Rotterdam \(1617\), Aix-en-Provence \(1623\), Montpellier \(1625\), Bordeaux \(1626\), Paris \(1626-1627\), Antwerp \(1628\), Paris \(1628-1629\), Antwerp \(1632\), Amsterdam \(1633\), Paris \(1634\), Antwerp \(1635\), Paris \(1635\), Rotterdam \(1639-1641\), and The Hague \(1644-1649\). He joined the painters' guild of The Hague in 1644 and made his will in that city in 1648. He probably died in 1649 or 1650. In his self-portrait the artist presents himself as a learned painter, and his acquaintance with the distinguished humanist Peiresc in Aix-en-Provence lends the notion credibility. De Vries's synthesis of Dutch and Flemish qualities bears a resemblance to that of artists working in The Hague even before he finally settled in that city. ## Related artworks - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()