Jacob Franckaert or Jacob Franquart (the Elder) (1550–51 – 6 September 1601 (buried)) was a Flemish painter and draftsman.
[Jacques Franckaert (I)]
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
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After training in Antwerp, he worked in Brussels and later moved to Italy where he worked in Naples and Rome. He is known for his religious subjects, landscapes and architectural scenes.
[Auguste Schoy, ''Histoire de l'influence italienne sur l'architecture dans les Pays-Bas'']
1879, Brussels, F. Hayez, pp 245-262
Life
Franckaert was born in
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, in 1550 or 1551.
[Annemie de Vos, ''Jacques Francart, Premier livre d'architecture (1617): studie van een Zuid-Nederlands modelboek met poortgebouwen'', KAWLSK, 1998 ] It is not known with whom he studied. He became a master in the Antwerp
Guild 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 ide ...
in 1571.
[Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius (ed.), ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde'']
Volume 1, Antwerp, Julius de Koninck, 1871, pp. 245 and 304 He married Michaela del Tronco.
[ A son, also called ]Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. J ...
was born in 1582 or 1583 and a daughter named Suzanna was born around 1584. Jacob the Elder was still recorded as a master painter at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1585.[
He travelled with his family via Paris to Italy in 1591. In Naples he started a collaboration with ]Wenceslas Cobergher
Wenceslas Cobergher (1560 – 23 November 1634), sometimes called Wenzel Coebergher, was a Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist. Faded somewhat into the background as a painter, he is chiefly ...
, a Flemish painter who had trained in Antwerp with the leading history painter . They executed several paintings for the city's churches. It is difficult to discern in these works the contribution of either artist.[
Jacob the Elder moved with his family to Rome in 1594. Cobergher joined them and the two artists continued their collaboration. Four months after the death of his first wife, Cobergher married Jacob's daughter Suzanna in Rome on 20 November 1599. At the time the Franckaert family was registered in the register of the parish of San Lorenzo in Rome and they were still registered there in March 1601.][ Jacob the elder was likely the teacher of his son Jacob the younger.][Brigitte de Patoul, ''Jacques Francart II'']
in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges
Jacob died on 6 September 1601 in Rome. His widow died not long after. Their son Jacob the went to live with his sister Susanna and her husband Cobergher.[
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Work
Franckaert painted and drew religious subjects, landscapes and architectural scenes. He collaborated on various paintings with Cobergher. He is now mainly known for a small number of landscape and architectural drawings. The only known signed drawing is ''The Temple of Minerva Medica and other ruins on the Esquiline, Rome'' in the collection of the Vatican, which is signed 'Van Franckaert'. This drawing has served as the basis of attributions of other drawings of Roman views in the Berlin Kunstbibliothek, the Louvre and the Rijksmuseum.[Jacob Franckaert (I) ''View of Rome'']
at Christie's
On 23 February 1601 Franckaert together with three other Flemish painters working in Rome entered into a contract with the Spanish noble Don Pietro di Toledo, fifth marquis of Villafranca for the execution of ninety paintings of hermits at the price of 15 escudos per piece and 400 paintings of Roman emperors and other prominent figures of Antiquity. The other Flemish painters were Paul Bril
Paul Bril (1554 – 7 October 1626) was a Flemish painter and printmaker principally known for his landscapes.Nicola Courtright. "Paul Bril." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 26 September 2016 He spent most of h ...
, a leading landscape painter, the rather obscure landscape artist Willem van Nieulandt the Elder and Franckaert's son-in-law and collaborator Cobergher. Thirty of the paintings of hermits are now in the collection of the Monastery of the Anunciada in Villafranca del Bierzo. These works were partially based on prints after designs by the Flemish artist . The contribution of each of the artists in the paintings cannot be determined with certainty.[Joan Bosch i Ballbona, ''Paul Bril, Wenzel Cobergher, Jacob Frankaert I, Willem I van Nieulandt y los ermitaños de Pedro de Toledo, V marqués de Villafranca'', amoenus, ISSN 1135-9722, Nº 9, 2007-2008, pp. 127-154]
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1550s births
1601 deaths
Flemish Renaissance painters
Painters from Antwerp