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The Death of Dido

Haringhs was essentially a portraitist who adopted the fashionable manner much used in the later 17th century, especially in The Hague and Amsterdam. The formula was to represent the sitter in some form of elegant undress rather than in the more formal clothes that were popular earlier in the century. The artist’s subject pictures appear to be much rarer. Haringhs was the pupil of the portraitist Arnold van Ravestyn in 1644 and later of Caspar Netscher (1639-1684) whose manner he followed. In his later years Haringhs became Director of the Academy in The Hague, which demonstrates the official esteem in which he was then held.