JB
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Dutch painter
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Jacob Buys, Jacobus Buijs
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19 November 1724(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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7 April 1801(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Biography
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Jacobus Buys (19 November 1724 – 7 April 1801) was a Dutch painter and engraver.
Buys was born in Amsterdam the son of a wig-maker. He studied under Cornelis Pronk, Jacob de Wit, and Cornelis Troost, and ultimately became director of the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. He painted portraits, bas-reliefs, and tapestry, designed book-illustrations, and made copies of the works of the best masters of the seventeenth century. Buys became a member of Amsterdam's Guild of St Luke in 1750, and died in 1801.