Salomon de Bray

He is registered as a pupil of Goltzius and Cornelis van Haarlem, but he probably started his training in Amsterdam with Jan Pynas, Nicolaes Moeyaert and Pieter Lastman.

He cooperated with fellow guild member and Catholic architect-artist Jacob van Campen in the decoration of Huis ten Bosch in The Hague.

His works draw on the spirit of the Dutch classicism beginning at that time, and are comparable with those of his Catholic colleague Pieter de Grebber.

This charter met with a lot of opposition from the Haarlem council, and was probably rejected for its efforts to promote painting above other guild pursuits such as engraving, woodcarving, tapestry-making, smithwork and pottery.

As an architect, he was involved in the construction or expansion of Haarlem's City Hall in 1630, the new consistory of the Bavokerk, the Zijlpoort, and St. Annakerk (Church of St. Anne).

Salomon de Bray and his wife, by their son Jan de Bray , National Gallery of Art , Washington, D.C.
Transcription of Salomon de Bray's proposed hierarchy of the guild in 1631, by the Haarlem archivist C.J. Gonnet, 1877 [ 3 ]
Cleopatra puts a pearl earring in the wine, posthumous family portrait poignantly illustrating a "priceless meal" with Salomon as Anthony and his wife Anna as Cleopatra, painted by son Jan (on the far left looking over at his sister and wife), and son Dirck (gazing out towards the viewer on the right) as the only surviving family members. 1669, Currier Museum of Art .