Tibout Regters

Dordrecht, ?24 Dec 1710; d Amsterdam, 26 Jan 1768). Dutch painter. After apprenticeships with several little-known painters in Arnhem, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, he completed his training under the Amsterdam portrait painter Jan Maurits Quinkhard. He remained in Amsterdam for the rest of his career. Regters’s earliest known works, a few small, rather dryly painted portraits dating from 1743, exhibit the strong influence of Quinkhard. In a few years, however, the young painter developed a more personal manner, one in which the element of genre played an important part, as in the portrait of the engraver Jan Caspar Philips (1747; Amsterdam, Rijksmus.), showing its subject seated at his work table. During this period Regters was apparently influenced by Frans van der Mijn, who worked in Amsterdam until his departure for England in 1748 or 1749. This can be clearly seen in the small, full-length portrait of the painter Ludolf Bakhuizen the Younger (1748; Amsterdam, Rijksmus.), which, however, is much more stiffly painted than van der Mijn’s work.