Tibout Regters (24 December 1710 – 26 January 1768) was an 18th-century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Tibout Regters
Tibout Regters upper right in Jan van Gool's Nieuw Schouburg
Born24 December 1710
Died26 January 1768(1768-01-26) (aged 57)

Biography edit

 
Portrait of the Mennonite minister Jan Brak and his family.

Regters was born in Dordrecht. According to his biographer Jan van Gool, his parents moved when he was two years old to Arnhem, where he grew up.[1] He was first sent to learn painting from Ten Haeg, and then moved to Rotterdam at age 20 to study for two years with Meyer.[1] He then moved to Amsterdam and first went to work for Wannenberg before becoming the pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard for 5 years.[1] At the end of this period he was an able portrait painter, and Van Gool visited his studio in 1751 in Amsterdam where he saw a good full-length portrait of the painter Ludolf Bakhuizen and a large group portrait that he was working on of the regents of the Amsterdam Almoezeniers orphanage.

According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard, and he worked in Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Arnhem and Rotterdam.[2] He died in Amsterdam.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c (in Dutch) Tibout Regters Biography in Nieuwe Schouburg (with painter index), (1750) by Jan van Gool, in the Institute of Dutch History
  2. ^ Tibout Regters in the RKD