Dirck de Bray

1635 in Haarlem – 1694 in Goch) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

The recorded working language is Dutch. Places of work recorded in the authority are Haarlem. Work by Dirck de Bray is recorded in the collections of National Galleries Scotland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mauritshuis, Our Lord in the Attic Museum and Rijksmuseum.

According to Houbraken he was a multi-talented son and pupil of the painter and architect Salomon de Bray. He was known as a flower painter, but he could also sculpt. He carved a wooden bust of his father's head, that Houbraken admired and used for his engraving of Salomon in his "Schouburg". He became a monk in the Gaesdonck monastery near Goch. He became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1671. Dirck was born into an artistic family. His brother Jan became a well-known painter, and his brother Joseph was also a painter, though he died young. His sister Cornelia married Jan Lievens. His mother was Anna Westerbaen, the sister of the painter Jan Westerbaen, and the poet Jacob Westerbaen. He was a printmaker and painted flower- and hunting still lifes. After 1678 he moved to the Gaesdonck monastery.