Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/De Ryck, William

by Louis Alexander Fagan

DE RYCK, WILLIAM (1635–1697), history painter, was born at Antwerp in 1635, and bred as a goldsmith, but took to painting when in England in the reign of William III. He died in London in 1697, but according to Nagler two years later. John Smith engraved in mezzotint his ‘Tarquin and Lucretia.’

[Redgrave's Dict. of English Artists.]

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