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Jacob van Doort (-1629) was a painter of Flemish or Dutch extraction active in Bio
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Danish site
Portrait miniaturists 1629 deaths Year of birth unknown Belgian expatriates in Denmark Belgian expatriates in Sweden {{Flemish-painter-stub
Jacob van Doort (-1629) was a painter of Flemish or Dutch extraction active in portrait miniature
A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...
s from 1606 to his death in 1629. He did much of his work for the courts of Denmark and Sweden, in particular the court of Christian IV of Denmark
Christian IV (12 April 1577 – 28 February 1648) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Holstein and Schleswig from 1588 until his death in 1648. His reign of 59 years, 330 days is the longest of Danish monarchs and Scandinavian monar ...
.
His own life is not well known. He was possibly the son of Peter van der Doort of Antwerp and the brother of Abraham van Doordt. He may have been born in Hamburg and made a few trips to England. For most of his career he worked in Northern Europe.at
RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He died in Stockholm.
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Danish site
Portrait miniaturists 1629 deaths Year of birth unknown Belgian expatriates in Denmark Belgian expatriates in Sweden {{Flemish-painter-stub