Apollo and Aurora  1671

Lairesse left his native Liège in 1664 and settled in Amsterdam the following year. He found work immediately with the art dealer Gerrit Uylenburgh and through him became acquainted with Rembrandt, who painted Lairesse's portrait in about 1665–1667 (Robert Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). As a painter and (after he became blind about 1690) as an art theo...