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Dijk [Dyk], Philip van
(b Amsterdam, 10 Jan 1680; d The Hague, 2 Feb 1753). Dutch painter and art dealer. After his apprenticeship with Arnold Boonen, which began in 1696, he worked for some time in Amsterdam, settling in Middelburg, capital of Zeeland, after his marriage and becoming a member of the painters’ guild in 1708. In Middelburg he was highly successful as a portrait painter and produced numerous paintings of prominent Zeelanders, done in the style of Boonen and of Boonen’s predecessors, Nicolaes Maes and Caspar Netscher. In view of this conservatism, van Dijk, whose personal style is typified by a smooth finish and the elegant but often rather strained poses of his models, can be seen as an epigon of 17th-century Dutch painting. His portraits are sometimes life-sized, but more often in smaller format.
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