Tibout Regters

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Arnhem, Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Jan ten Compe, Painter and Art Dealer in Amsterdam, Portrait of the Brak Family, Amsterdam Mennonites and Portrait of Ludolf Backhuysen II, Painter, in the Uniform of the Dragoons. Work by Tibout Regters is recorded in the collections of Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, Fries Museum and Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen.

• Name — Tibout Regters • Born — 24 December 1710 • Birthplace — Dordrecht, Holland, The Netherlands • Died — 26 January 1768 • Place of death — Amsterdam, Holland, The Netherlands

• Illustration — Portrait of the Amsterdam Mennonite Brak family Regters was born in Dordrecht. According to his biographer Jan van Gool, his parents moved when he was two years old to Arnhem, where he grew up. He was first sent to learn painting from Ten Haeg, and then moved to Rotterdam at age 20 to study for two years with Meyer. He then moved to Amsterdam and first went to work for Wannenberg before becoming the pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard for 5 years. At the end of this period he was an able portrait painter, and Van Gool visited his studio in 1751 in Amsterdam where he saw a good full-length portrait of the painter Ludolf Bakhuizen and a large group portrait that he was working on of the regents of the Amsterdam Almoezeniers orphanage. According to the RKD, Regters was a pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard, and he worked in Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Arnhem and Rotterdam. He died in Amsterdam.

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars.

It is also recorded that tibout Regters is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation miniature painter. Institutional cataloguing adds that tibout Regters is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Recorded with the occupation printmaker. It is also recorded that tibout Regters is recorded as a citizen of Dutch Republic. Recorded with the gender male. Institutional cataloguing adds that tibout Regters was born on 24 December 1710. Institutional cataloguing adds that tibout Regters died on 1 January 1768. Regters worked at Arnhem. Regters worked at Rotterdam. The same evidence establishes that tibout Regters worked at Amsterdam. Classed in the genre portrait.