Jacobus Buys

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.

[1] 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,[1] and died in 1801.

Portrait of Cornelis Ploos van Amstel , Dutch art collector, 1766. Now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .
Portrait of industrialist Jan Modderman and his wife, 1777.