{{Short description|Flemish Baroque painter}} {{For|those of a similar name|Jerry Thomas (disambiguation){{!}}Jerry Thomas}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}} thumb|Gerard Thomas: ''The painter in his studio'' '''Gerard Thomas''' (1663–1721) was a late Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in studio and picture gallery interiors. He became a master in Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke in 1688–89, and was dean twice.<ref name="filipsczak">Filipczak, pp. 177–190.</ref> Many of his paintings reflect a trend in Antwerp painting around 1700 that shows artists—often historical masters from earlier in the century like Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck or Jacob Jordaens—in their studios, surrounded by paintings and sculptures, and teaching the craft to a young apprentice.<ref name="filipsczak" /> The masters are often only hinted by the works of art pictured in the painting itself, however.<ref name="filipsczak" />
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==Sources== * Filipczak, Z. Z. (1987). Picturing art in Antwerp, 1550–1700. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. {{ISBN|0-691-04047-8}} {{Commons category}}
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