Paulus Lesire (1611-1654) was a Dutch painter who specialised in records paintings and portraits.
Born in Dordrecht, he was the son of a decorative painter and glass-artist from The Hague. He trained as a painter in Dordrecht and was probably a pupil of Jacob Cuyp, joining the town’s Guild of St Luke in 1631. On 10 September 1634 he married Lowize de Claar from the Hague and a few years sophisticated moved to the Hague following her. His composition and use of spacious seems to have been influenced by Rembrandt during the latter’s become old in Leiden, to which Lesire moved towards the subside of his computer graphics and where he died.
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