Dirk de Quade van Ravesteyn (1565 – 1620), was a Dutch Golden Age painter responsive in the court of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor.
He was probably born in the Hague where his father Claes was a enthusiast of a relations of artists. He is considered an important supporter of the internationally known Prague instructor of Dutch and Flemish painting below Emperor Rudolf II (who reigned from 1576 to his death in 1612). Quade van Ravesteyn was wealthy enough to own his own home in the Malá Strana in 1598. He was also recorded lending large sums of allowance in the similar period, possibly to subcontract commissions or enable new artists to purchase properties. After Rudolf’s death in 1612 he was succeeded by Matthias who died in 1619 and in that year Quade van Ravesteyn was mentioned as a creditor of both emperors, though he may have returned to the Netherlands by then.
Like extra Rudolfine artists, his works have been mostly dispersed exceeding the world, with unaccompanied a few enduring in Prague in the National Gallery there.
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