Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht (1613, Dordrecht – 1691, Dordrecht), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

portrait painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who mentioned him in passing with a list of painters from Dordrecht, he first learned from

Cornelis Bisschop Cornelis Bisschop (12 February 1630 – 21 January 1674), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography In ca. 1650 he was a student of Ferdinand Bol in Amsterdam. In 1653 he was back in Dordrecht, where he got married. According to Houbraken he ...

, and later became a pupil of Jan de Baen, who taught him portrait painting.Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht Biography
''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature. He travelled to London and couldn't compete with

Godfrey Kneller Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723), was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to Kingdom of England, English and Br ...

as a portrait painter, but Kneller hired him to paint clothing and less important parts of Kneller's paintings.Jacob van de Roer

historici.nl The Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands was formed on January 1, 2011 through a merger of the Institute of Dutch History ( nl, 'Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis', ING) a research institute of the Netherlands Organisation f ...

. Accessed 7 January 2023. Roer van Dordrecht returned to Dordrecht and later died in the Gasthuis there. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Godfrey Kneller and is only known as a draughtsman of decorations on title pages.Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht
RKD. Accessed 7 January 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roer van Dordrecht, Jacob van der 1613 births 1691 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch portrait painters Artists from Dordrecht