Jacob Jansz. Coeman (
Amsterdam
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? ca 1632- 9 April 1676,
Batavia, Dutch East Indies
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) was a Dutch painter of portraits. Coeman worked in the style of
Thomas de Keyser.
In 1655 he married Hester Wils, either from Haarlem or
Den Briel. His father lived in
Kalverstraat and was a supervisor in the
schutterij
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
. The couple had two children. In 1663 he left for Batavia.
Besides
Joan Maetsuycker and
Johan Bax van Herenthals he famously painted a portrait of
Pieter Cnoll with his half Japanese wife
Cornelia van Nijenroode and his family in Batavia.
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1630s births
1673 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Amsterdam