Terburg

Terburg, GERARD, painter, was born at Zwolle in 1608, studied first under his father, Gerard (1584-1662), and afterwards visited Italy and England, was at Münster during the congress of 1648, and later at Madrid. On his return he settled at Deventer, where he became burgo-master, and died 8th December 1681. The elegant life of his time, with its superfine manners and splendid costume, found in Terburg an admirable painter. The central figure in many of his pictures is a fair-haired young lady in white satin; delicacy, grace, and humour, and marvellous mastery of technique in draperies inform all his work. His most famous picture is a small work on copper containing portraits of the sixty-nine plenipotentiaries who drew up the Treaty of Westphalia. See Michel, Terburg et sa famille (1888).