若雅藝術

傑拉德·特·博爾奇（或特爾堡）（1617年12月到1681年12月8）是荷蘭風俗畫家，他生活在荷蘭的黃金時代。博爾奇出生於1617年12月在荷蘭共和國上艾瑟爾省（the province of Overijssel）的玆沃勒（Zwolle）。

他受到父親的良好教育，他的父親也是一個畫家竝且很早就才華橫益。在一個研究的碑文的前部份就証明1632年博爾奇在阿姆斯特丹，在那裡他可能在威廉·科內利斯·Duyster（Willem Cornelisz Duyster）或彼得·柯德（Pieter Codde）的指導下做研究。Duyster's influence can be traced in a picture bearing the date 1638, in the lonides Bequest (Victoria and Albert Museum). In 1634 he studied under Pieter de Molijn in Haarlem. A record of this Haarlem period is the Consultation (1635) at the Berlin Gallery.

In 1635 he was in London, and subsequently he travelled in Germany, France, Spain and Italy. It is certain that he was in Rome in 1641, when he painted the small portraits on copper of Jan Six and A Young Lady (Six Collection, Amsterdam). In 1648 he was at Münster during the meeting of the congress which ratified the treaty of peace between the Spaniards and the Dutch, and executed his celebrated little picture, painted upon copper, of the assembled plenipotentiaries--a work which, along with the a portrait of a Man Standing, now represents the master in the national collection in London. The picture was bought by the marquess of Hertford at the Demidoff sale for 1280, and presented to the National Gallery by Sir Richard Wallace, at the suggestion of his secretary, Sir John Murray Scott. At this time Ter Borch was invited to visit Madrid, where he received employment and the honour of knighthood from Philip IV, but, in consequence of an intrigue, it is said, he was obliged to return to the Netherlands. He seems to have resided for a time in Haarlem; but he finally settled in Deventer, where he became a member of the town council, as which he appears in the portrait now in the gallery of the Hague. He died at Deventer in 1681.