Jan Baptist Van Deynum
Jan Baptist van Deynum, Dynen or Duinen (1620–1668), was a Flemish Baroque painter and a captain of the local civil guard in Antwerp. He is said to have painted portraits, genre subjects, history paintings and landscapes.Jan Baptist van Deynum
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Biography

Very little is known about the artist. He may have been a member of the family of artists active in Antwerp, which included the still life painter G. van Deynum and the staffage painter Abraham van Deynum.
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Het Gulden Cabinet
''Het Gulden Cabinet vande Edel Vry Schilder-Const'' or ''The Golden Cabinet of the Noble Liberal Art of Painting'' is a book by the 17th-century Flemish notary and ''Chamber of rhetoric, rederijker'' Cornelis de Bie published in Antwerp. Written in the Dutch language, it contains artist biographies and panegyrics with engraved portraits of 16th- and 17th-century artists, predominantly from the Habsburg Netherlands. The work is a very important source of information on the artists it describes. It formed the principal source of information for later art historians such as Arnold Houbraken and Jacob Campo Weyerman. It was published in 1662, although the work also mentions 1661 as date of publication. Background ''Het Gulden Cabinet'' stands in a long tradition of artist biographies. This tradition goes back to Pliny the Elder, Pliny and was revived during the Renaissance. In 1550, the Italian Giorgio Vasari published his ''Vite'' on the lives of famous artists. Karel van Mande ...
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