page_title: Jacobus Buys
hierarchical_section_title: Jacobus Buys
context_page_description: Jacobus Buys was a Dutch painter and engraver.
  Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker. He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry, designed 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, and died in 1801.
context_section_description: Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver.
  Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker. He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry, designed 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, and died in 1801.
caption: Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch art collector, 1766. Now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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