Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 – 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.

Biography

Oude stadhuis aan de Groenmarkt in Den Haag (20)

Frontispiece Jan Punt en Jacob de Wit naar P

Jacob de Wit was born in

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, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on the

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in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or ceiling paintings done by him. Since many of the families who lived in Amsterdam in those days had country villas, de Wit also painted in houses in the fashionable areas of

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and the Vecht river. According to the

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he was the pupil of Albert van Spiers in Amsterdam and Jacob van Hal in Antwerp where he became a member of the

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in 1714.Jacob de Wit
in the

While in Antwerp, he made a series of watercolor sketches of the Rubens ceilings in the

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in Antwerp. After the church was struck by lightning in 1718 these became a historical document, and his pupil Jan Punt later engraved his sketches and published them in 1751.''De Plafonds of Gallery-stukken uit de Kerk der P.P. Jesuiten, te Antwerpen, geschilderd door P.P. Rubens, geteekend door J. de Wit, en op koper gebragt door Jan Punt'', Amsterdam, 1751 His pupils were Jan de Groot (painter from The Hague), Dionys van Nijmegen, Jan Punt, Pieter Tanjé, and the brothers

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and

Jacob Xavery Jacob Xavery (27 April 1736, The Hague – after 1771) was a Dutch painter. Xavery was the son of sculptor Jan Baptist Xavery and pupil of Jakob de Wit. He practised in Amsterdam, Breda, and The Hague, and also spent time in Paris Pari ...

. Jacob de Wit died in Amsterdam in 1754.

Tako Hajo Jelgersma Tako Hajo Jelgersma (October 29, 1702 in Harlingen – March 24, 1795 in Haarlem), was an 18th-century Dutch painter. Biography According to the RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, Jelgersma moved to Haarlem in 1757.

was his follower.

Major works

*Baptism of Christ in the Jorda

1716) – Chalk and pen drawing *Adoration of the Shepherd

(1726) – Oil on canvas *Holy Family and Trinity, also : The Return from Egyp

(1726) – Oil on canvas *Allegory of Transienc

(1733) – Oil on canvas *''

Moses Elects Seventy Elders ''Moses Elects Seventy Elders'' is a painting by Jacob de Wit, completed in December 1737 and commissioned for the interior of the City Hall in Amsterdam. It shows Moses electing seventy elders (Numbers 11:16-17, 24–25) and is now in the Royal Pa ...

'' (1737) – Oil on canvas

Location of paintings

*One of his paintings for a door in

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now hangs in Uppsala, Sweden, in the

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museum. *A set of paintings of the four seasons depicting cherubs painted in a three-dimensional monochrome style now hangs at

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house in

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. *Another of his three-dimensional monochrome style cherub paintings hangs in

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house in

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. *

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Museum Willet-Holthuysen Museum Willet-Holthuysen is a located on the Herengracht in Amsterdam. The Amsterdam famous ring of canals is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. History The house was built for Jacob Hop, mayor of Amsterdam, around 1685. He was not the last may ...

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wit, Jacob De 1695 births 1754 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Dutch Christians Painters from Amsterdam Painters from Antwerp