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Thomas Gaal

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Thomas Gaal
Self portrait 1802
Born
Thomas Gaal

ca. 1739
Dendermonde, Belgium
Diedca. 1817
Middelburg, Belgium
EducationBrussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts
OccupationPainter
RelativesPieter Gaal (son)

Thomas Gaal, a painter of portraits, birds, and flowers, was born at Dendermonde in about 1739. He fixed his residence at Middelburg, and was one of the founders and directors of the Academy in that town. J. Perkois, J. H. Koekkoek, and S. De Koster were his pupils. He died at Middelburg in 1817. The painter Pieter Gaal was his son.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainBryan, Michael (1886). "GAAL, Thomas". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.