Arie de Vois

Dutch, about 1632- 1680

BiographyArie de Vois was born in Utrecht in ca. 1632, where his father, Alewijn de Vois, was organist of the cathedral. In 1636 the family moved to Leiden, where his father was organist of the Pieterskerk. After an apprenticeship in the studios of Nicolaes Knupfer in Utrecht and Abraham van den Tempel in Leiden, De Vois entered the Leiden guild on 16 October 1653. In 1656 he married Marya van der Vecht, who, according to the 18th-century writer Houbraken, was wealthy, which enabled De Vois to lead a comfortable life. Probably this marriage is the explanation for his relatively small oeuvre. Despite his wealth, he seems to have fallen into debt near the end of his life due to his extravagant lifestyle. De Vois died in July of 1680.

Together with Gerrit Dou and Frans van Mieris the Elder, Arie de Vois is considered one of the principal representatives of the Leiden fijnschilders (fine painters). Besides genre pieces in the Leiden tradition, he painted arcadian and mythological subjects, all
predominantly on a small scale. The Louvre, Paris, possesses De Vois’s Self-Portrait of 1673.

See further:
-Leidse Fijnschilders, Van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge, 1630-1760, exh. cat., Leiden, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, 1988 (Eric J. Sluijter, ed.), pp. 250-262.

-Peter Hecht, De Hollandse fijnschilders. Van Gerard Dou tot Adriaen van der Werff, exh. cat., Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1989, pp. 229-246.

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