Matthijs Harings

Portrait of Gysbert Japiks, 1646

Matthijs Harings (1593 in Leeuwarden โ€“ 1667 in Leeuwarden),[citation needed] was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.

According to Arnold Houbraken, he was a good portrait painter who caught the expressions of his subjects well. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, his portraits are sometimes confused with works by Wybrand de Geest.

References

  1. โ†‘ (in Dutch) Matthijs Harings Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. โ†‘ Matthijs Harings in the RKD