Jacques Backereel - landscape with figures

Jacques Backereel Jacques Backereel
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Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, p. 1074 ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen''
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Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch people, Dutch Painting, painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadt ...

, Jaques Backereel, 1718 (

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landscape painter. After training in Antwerp he worked for some time in Rome. He is mainly known for large-scale landscape paintings.

Life

Little is known about the early life of Backereel. He is believed to have been born in Antwerp. The date of his birth is placed between roughly 1580 and 1602. Most likely he was born in the late 1590s as he started his apprenticeship in 1612. His teacher was Tobias Verhaecht, a landscape painter who had been the first teacher of RubensPh. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 1, Antwerp, 1864, p. 174, 491, on

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Jacques became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1618. Jacques Backereel is documented in Rome in the period from 1626 to 1638. Jacques Backereel - Wooded landscape with travellers on a path

Jacques Backereel - Wooded landscape with travellers on a path

Jacques Backereel was the teacher of Hendrick Backereel (1645), the landscape painter

Abraham Genoels Abraham Genoels II or Abraham Genouil (nickname: Archimedes) (25 May 1640 – 10 May 1723) was a Flemish Baroque painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer. He is now mainly known for his landscape paintings, drawings and prints. He h ...

, Jan Baptist Huybrecht (1658) and the engraver Franciscus van der Steen II (1658).Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1864, p. 174, 296, on

. The Netherlands Institute for Art History entry on Jacques Backereel erroneously states that the engraver Franciscus van der Steen was his pupil. The master of Franciscus van der Steen was in fact Alexander Voet the Elder, see: Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, Volume 2, p. 105 The artist is believed to have died in Antwerp between 1658 and 1678.

Work

Jacques Backereel was a landscape painter. Very few works have been attributed to him with certainty. Numerous landscapes by a Backereel were mentioned in Antwerp inventories from 1649 onwards and later in the papers of the Forchondt art dealers of Antwerp. It is believed that they were painted by Jacques Backereel. A number of these are specified as large paintings.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Backereel, Jacques 1590s births 1668 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish landscape painters Painters from Antwerp