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ESAIAS See also:BOURSSE (1630-1673) , Dutch painter, was See also:born in See also:Amsterdam . He was a follower of Pieter de See also:Hooch, in whose manner he worked for many years in his native See also:town; then he took service with the Dutch See also:East See also:India See also:Company, and died on a See also:sea voyage . His paintings are exceedingly rare, perhaps because, in spite of their greater freedom and breadth, many of them pass under the names of Vermeer of See also:Delft and Pieter de Hooch . Two of the paintings ascribed to the latter (one bears the false See also:signature) at the Ryks museum in Amsterdam, are now recognized as being the See also:work of See also:Boursse . His subjects are interiors with figures, painted with See also:great precision and with exquisite quality of See also:colour . The See also:Wallace collection has his masterpiece, an interior with a woman and a See also:child in a See also:cradle, almost as brilliant as on the See also:day it was painted, and reflecting something of the feeling of See also:Rembrandt, by whom he was influenced . Other important examples are at the Ryks museum and at See also:Aix-la-Chapelle . Boursse's " Boy blowing See also:Soap Bubbles," in the See also:Berlin museum, was until lately attributed to Vermeer of Delft . More than one picture bearing the false signature of Boursse have been publicly shown of See also:late years . |
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