Juriaen Jacobsze

Michiel de Ruyter and his family, 1662

Juriaen Jacobsz or Georg Albert Jacobsz (December 17, 1624, Hamburg – 1685, Leeuwarden), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait and animal painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Frans Snyders in Antwerp and a teacher of Hendrik Carré in Leeuwarden.[1] In Leeuwarden he became court painter to Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz in Leeuwarden.[1]

According to the RKD he was in Antwerp from 1652–1658, in Amsterdam from 1659–1664 and travelled to Leeuwarden in 1665, where he stayed.[2] His pupils were Hendrik Carré and David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 (Dutch) Juriaan Jacobsze 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 Juriaen Jacobsz in the RKD
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