Jacobus Buys
Dutch painter and engraver
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Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver.
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Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker.[1] He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, designed bas-reliefs, tapestry, and book-illustrations, and made copies of the works of the best masters of the seventeenth century. Buys became a member of Amsterdam's Guild of St Luke in 1750,[1] and died in 1801.
