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Jacob Willemszoon Delff the Elder, (c. 1550 in Gouda5 May 1601 in Delff, Jacob Willemsz. (I)
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History] was a portrait painter active in Delft. He is known by a picture of an ' schutterstuk, Archery-feast' in the Hotel de Ville at Delft, dated 1592; and by a ''Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob,'' in the Belvedere at Vienna, bearing the date 1584. He also painted ''The Sportsman's Dinner,'' and a portrait group of his family. His works display good conception and execution, but are somewhat heavy in colouring.
Jacob Delff had three sons, Cornelis, Rochus, and
Vermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Jacob Willemsz Delff 1550s births 1601 deaths Dutch Renaissance painters People from Gouda, South Holland Artists from Delft {{Netherlands-painter-stub
Jacob Willemszoon Delff the Elder, (c. 1550 in Gouda5 May 1601 in Delft
Delft () is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan ...
)at the Netherlands Institute for Art History] was a portrait painter active in Delft. He is known by a picture of an ' schutterstuk, Archery-feast' in the Hotel de Ville at Delft, dated 1592; and by a ''Reconciliation of Esau and Jacob,'' in the Belvedere at Vienna, bearing the date 1584. He also painted ''The Sportsman's Dinner,'' and a portrait group of his family. His works display good conception and execution, but are somewhat heavy in colouring.
Jacob Delff had three sons, Cornelis, Rochus, and Willem
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, ...
. Cornelis Jacobsz Delff
Cornelis Jacobsz. Delff (1570–1643) was a Dutch Golden Age still life painter.
Biography
Delff was born in Gouda. According to Houbraken he was first a pupil of his father Jacob Delff, and then of Cornelis van Haarlem.
(Gouda c. 1571-15 August 1643, Delft), was a pupil of his father and of Cornelis van Haarlem
Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem (1562 – 11 November 1638) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, one of the leading Northern Mannerist artists in the Netherlands, and an important forerunner of Frans Hals as a portraitist.
Biograph ...
, and distinguished himself by very fine pictures of still life. Rochus Delff was a portrait painter, and a pupil of his father.
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Vermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Jacob Willemsz Delff 1550s births 1601 deaths Dutch Renaissance painters People from Gouda, South Holland Artists from Delft {{Netherlands-painter-stub