Jacques Vaillant (painter)

Jacques Vaillant portrait shown in lower left next to his brother Wallerant Vaillant under a portrait of their Amsterdam contemporary, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, in Arnold Houbraken's Schouburg, Volume II, 1719.
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg with the Battle of Fehrbellin.

Jacques Vaillant (1643, Amsterdam – 1691, Berlin), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his older brother Wallerant Vaillant.[1] He travelled to Rome and joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Leeurik.[1] He became painter for Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg after his envoy invited him to Berlin. The Great Elector was so pleased with his work that he sent him to the Emperor Leopold I to paint his portrait.[1] When Vaillant returned from this trip to Berlin, he died soon after.[1]

According to the RKD he was in Rome from 1664-1666, in Amsterdam from 1666-1670, and then moved to The Hague for two years where he became a member of the Confrerie Pictura from 1670-1672, and in 1672 he moved to Berlin.[2] Simon Ruys was his pupil.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 (Dutch) Jacques Vaillant Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 Jacques Vaillant in the RKD
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