Leiden painter, his hometown (like Rembrandt) and portrait painter in Amsterdam. He worked for a short period as a companion to Hamburg before traveling to Venice and Rome at the age of 25 years. On the way back, he probably offered his services to some German prince. Back in the Netherlands in 1613, he established himself as a painter of portraits and vanities. He executed many portraits drawn small format painters of his time as well as students and professors from the University of Leiden.
In his portraits, Bailey represented objects attractive and expressive in the midst of a domestic environment. Found in its vanities the usual symbols of the ephemeral and transitory nature of human beings such as the skull, flower, candle ... He has also painted in the presence of symbols of vanity, that in accepting the transience his own life.
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