Jacob Jansz. Coeman (
Amsterdam? ca 1632- 9 April 1676,
Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch painter of portraits. Coeman worked in the style of
Thomas de Keyser.
In 1655 he married Hester Wils, either from Haarlem or
Den Briel. His father lived in
Kalverstraat and was a supervisor in the
schutterij
Schutterij () refers to a voluntary city guard or citizen militia in the medieval and early modern Netherlands, intended to protect the town or city from attack and act in case of revolt or fire. Their training grounds were often on open spaces w ...
. The couple had two children. In 1663 he left for Batavia.
Besides
Joan Maetsuycker and
Johan Bax van Herenthals
Johan Bax van Herenthals (14 March 1637 – 29 June 1678), also written as Joan Bax, and van Herentals, was born in 's-Hertogenbosch and was the governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1676 succeeding the acting interim governor IJsbrand Godske. ...
he famously painted a portrait of
Pieter Cnoll
Pieter Cnoll, also known as Pieter Knoll (d. 1672), was a Dutch merchant who was employed by the United East India Company (VOC). Cnoll, who was born in Amsterdam, joined the VOC's accounting department at some point before 1647 and was sent to t ...
with his half Japanese wife
Cornelia van Nijenroode
Cornelia van Nijenroode (1629 1692) was a Dutch merchant in the Dutch East Indies, famous for her conflict with her second husband.
Life
Van Nijenroode was born in Hirado, Japan, to Cornelis van Nijenroode (d. 1633), the manager of the Dut ...
and his family in Batavia.
Notes
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coeman, Jacob Jansz
1630s births
1673 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
Painters from Amsterdam