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Pay [Pey], Johann de [Depay, Johann; Depey, Johann]
(b Riedlingen, 18 July 1614; d Munich, 1660). German painter and draughtsman. He was probably the son and pupil of Hans Depay (Debay; fl 1586–95), a Flemish painter living in Germany. After continuing his training in the Netherlands, from 1637 he worked at the electoral court in Munich, becoming court painter in 1640. Though he was registered as a master in Augsburg in 1642, he later returned to Munich. His last work, the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin (Landshut, Münster St Martin), was completed by Hieronymus Mänderlein ( fl 1660–65). Pay worked as a copyist and miniaturist but also produced fine portraits and works in larger formats. Few of his paintings and drawings, mostly influenced by Rembrandt, Rubens and van Dyck, have survived. A Self-portrait (1649; Augsburg, Schaezlerpal.) shows him pointing at an engraving with his right hand.
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