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Jacob Xavier Vermoelen or Jacob Xaver VermoelenName variations: Jacobus Xaverus Vermoelen, Jacques Xavier Vermoelen, Jacob Xaver Vermolen (c. 1714 - 1784) was a
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at Christie's site He died in Rome.
Only about 14 or so of Vermoelen's works are known. These all depict dead birds and are all dated between 1748 and 1755. He was influenced by the Antwerp painter
Jacob Xavier Vermoelen or Jacob Xaver VermoelenName variations: Jacobus Xaverus Vermoelen, Jacques Xavier Vermoelen, Jacob Xaver Vermolen (c. 1714 - 1784) was a Flemish
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painter of still life
A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, human-m ...
s and game pieces who was active in Rome
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.Jacob Xaver Vermoelenat the
Netherlands Institute for Art History
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Life
Vermoelen was born in Antwerp, where he trained under Pieter Snyers. He became a master of the AntwerpGuild of Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was iden ...
in 1733. Nothing is recorded about his activity in Antwerp. He is recorded as executing a number of paintings in Rome in 1748. In Rome he appears to have enjoyed high patronage as is demonstrated by two still lifes that he made for the renowned art collector Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga
Silvio Valenti Gonzaga (1 March 1690 – 28 August 1756) was an Italian nobleman and Catholic cardinal.
Biography
Gonzaga was born in Mantua. He served as papal nuncio to Flanders, 1731–1736, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal ...
.Jacob Xavier Vermoelen, Dead Birds at the Foot of a Tree and on a rocky Bankat Christie's site He died in Rome.
Work
Only about 14 or so of Vermoelen's works are known. These all depict dead birds and are all dated between 1748 and 1755. He was influenced by the Antwerp painter David de Coninck
David de Coninck or David de Koninck, also known as Rammelaer (ca. 1644, Antwerp – after 1701, probably City of Brussels, Brussels) was a Southern Netherlands, Flemish painter who specialised in still lifes and Landscape painting, landscapes wit ...
who was known for his game pieces.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vermoelen, Jacob Xavier 1784 deaths Painters from Antwerp 18th-century Flemish painters Flemish still life painters 1710s births