Dirck Ferreris

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Dirck Ferreris (also Diederik or Theodor Freres) (1639 – 6 June 1693) was a Dutch Golden Age painter of the Baroque period. He spent most of his life in Enkhuizen, and several of his works hang in the Enkhuizen city hall, including the Allegory of Good Government.

Ferreris travelled to Italy in 1666 with Adriaen Backer. After returning to Amsterdam, he later went to London to work for Sir Peter Lely in 1678.

According to the biographer Arnold Houbraken, Ferreris specialized in decorating galleries. He painted at Huis Honselaarsdijk and another in Amsterdam for a Mr. Roeters.

After Italy he became friends with Johannes Voorhout, and they practiced drawing together from a naked model. Ferreris told Voorhout that he had saved money tightly, spending only 30 guilders on his whole year in Italy, which Houbraken found puzzling since Ferreris came from a good family and did not need to save.

Houbraken also notes that Ferreris was a great friend of Johan van Neck and left him his papierkunst, or paper art.