Gysbrecht Thys

[2] Thys was described by his Flemish contemporary Cornelis de Bie as a painter particularly skilled in nudes as well as in religious and mythological works.

[3] Later Dutch biographers Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman claimed he was a portrait painter but this may have been a misreading of de Bie's Gulden Cabinet or a confusion with his cousin Pieter Thijs.

[7][8] A work sold as a Bacchanal but now identified as a representation of the Golden Age is signed and dated '... THYS F. 1653' (At Artcurial on 26 March 2014, lot 121).

Paintings in this genre typically show a flower or, less frequently, fruit garland around a devotional image or portrait.

[10] The Stone cartouche with a depiction of the Madonna and Child and John the Baptist surrounded by bouquets of flowers and fruits (At Koller Auktionen on 23 March 2018, Zurich, lot 3036) is an example of a collaboration on a garland painting by Thys and the Antwerp still life painter Joris van Son.