Jacques Waben

Grietje Adriaensdr Groote (1588-1623), 1622

Jacques Waben (c. 1590, Hoorn – c. 1634, Hoorn), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a good portrait and history painter, who painted both small and large pieces.[1] Houbraken admired the history of Joseph in 4 panels that hung in the Proveniers Hof in Hoorn when he was writing. He also saw a history of Jephthah dated 1602, at the Hoorn home of the painter Johannes Bronkhorst.[1]

According to the RKD many of his paintings survive in local private collections and the Westfries Museum.[2]

References

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