Gerald Zoust

Gerald Zoust , painter German (named sometimes Sowst and Soest ), was born in the Westphalia towards 1637.

Little time before the restoration of Charles II, it came in England, where it was flattered to find work more lucrative than in his native land. It was devoted to the portrait, and it acquired soon a great reputation. Its drawing was correct and bold, its brilliant color, but it was far from equalizing Lely under the report/ratio thanks to giving to the portraits of women. Horace Walpole have speaks in the most flattering terms, and it announces in particular the portrait of the artist painted by itself and preserved at Houghton.

Zoust was very conceited, and irritated die to see that other painters were preferred to him. Extremely neglected in its costume, and of a morose nature, it often opened itself its door with the people who came to see it, and when they displeased to him, circumstance which was not rare, being made pass for a servant, it said that its Master had left.

Among his best productions one quotes the portrait of the engraver Loggan, that to sir John Trockmorton, and the head very striking of a gentleman whose head is covered with a black wig. This work of a great merit was paid with the artist only three pounds sterling. Zoust often equipped with satin the ladies which posed in front of him, and, in the reproduction of these fabrics, it showed the rival, sometimes happy, of Terburg. Death struck it in 1681 when it was still in all the force of the age.

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