Jacob de Decker

Giacomo, or Jacob de Decker (1640, Haarlem – 1680, Rome), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the bentvueghels with the bentname Gulden Regen.[1] He signed Abraham Genoels bentbrief on 3 January 1675.[1][2]

According to the RKD he may have been the son of the Haarlem landscape painter Cornelis Gerritsz Decker.[2] He is known in Haarlem for his illustrations for Petrus Scriverius.[2][3]

References

  1. 1 2 (Dutch) Giacomo de Dekker in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 3 Jacob de Decker in the RKD
  3. ↑ Olde and new descriptions of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, by Petrus Scriverius, Amsterdam, 1667
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, June 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.