This is Thomas Wijck

Thomas Wijck (also Thomas Wijk, or Thomas Wyck; 1616–1677) was a Dutch painter of harbor views and genre paintings.

Wijck was born into an artist family and normal his training from his father. He journeyed to Italy, presumably by 1640, the year in which a ‘Tommaso fiammingo, pittore’ (Thomas the Fleming, painter) is documented as residing in Rome in the Via della Fontanella. Although this evidence of his address in Rome on the order of this times has been questioned, a number of his pictures depict scenes in and nearly Rome which would indicate a visit to the city at some point. He then resided in the environs of Naples, where he executed many sketches which he when worked up into drawings of coast views.

In 1642 Wijck returned to the northern Netherlands, where he became a supporter of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. In 1660 he was appointed Dean of the Haarlem Guild.

He went to England just about the get older of the Restoration and was much employed. He was followed there by his son and pupil Jan Wyck, who remained in Britain for the get out of of his career and played an important role in the expand of English sporting painting. Thomas Wyck was as well as the hypothetical of the Haarlem painter Jan van der Vaart, who later also immigrated to England.

He died in Haarlem in August 1677. Pieter Mulier II was a follower of his style.

He excelled in Italianate paintings of shipping and seaports, populated taking into consideration many figures, very frequently peculiar characters such as alchemists and misers. His style resembles that of the loose group of Dutch and Flemish genre painters functional in Rome who are called the ‘Bamboccianti’ and were influenced by the genre paintings of Pieter van Laar. He as a consequence painted fairs, public markets, and the interiors of chemists’ laboratories.

Thomas Wijck’s painting of an alchemist is said to have influenced Joseph Wright of Derby’s same picture. Both pictures contain thesame vaulting, a confusion of objects and an accomplice who is singled out by the light.

Thomas Wijck painted a View of London previously the fire, and another of the north bank of the Thames, from Southwark, exhibiting the mansions of the nobility in the Strand. He as a consequence painted the “Fire of London” more than once.