Jacob Woutersz Vosmaer - Still-Life of Flowers with a Fritillary in a Stone Niche - WGA25341

Jacob Vosmaer (1584,

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– 1641,

) was a

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painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was born in Delft as a descendant of an old line of Vosmeers.Jacob Vosmaer Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD he was the son of the Delft gold- and silversmith Wouter Vosmaer, and the brother of the silversmith Arent Woutersz Vosmaer.Jacob Vosmaer
in the

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He started his career as a landscape specialist, but switched to flowers, which brought him more success. He visited Italy as a young man and returned to Delft in 1608 at the age of 24, where he remained and became a respected citizen, and major in the

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. He became a member of the Delft

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before 1613, where he was a pupil of

Jacob de Gheyn II Jacob de Gheyn II (also Jacques de Gheyn II) (c. 1565 – 29 March 1629) was a Dutch painter and engraver, whose work shows the transition from Northern Mannerism to Dutch realism over the course of his career. Biography De Gheyn was born ...

. He later taught his nephews

Daniel Vosmaer Daniël Vosmaer (c. 1630 in Delft – after 1666 in Brielle, Den Briel), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to the RKD, he was the son of the silversmith Arent Wouteresz, the younger brother of Abraham Vosmaer, Abraham, the ...

and Abraham Vosmeer, and the Dane Jakob Mogensen or

Ebbe Ulfeldt Jacob Mogensen, or Ebbe Ulfeldt (c. 1600 – c. 1670), was the brother of the Danish naval officer Corfits Ulfeldt, and became a landscape painter in Delft. According to the RKD he was a registered pupil of Jacob Vosmaer. He is probably the ...

. He was the uncle of

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. No known landscapes by his hand survive. He died in Delft in 1641.

References

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External links

Vermeer and The Delft School
a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Jacob Vosmaer {{DEFAULTSORT:Vosmaer, Jacob 1584 births 1641 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Artists from Delft Painters from Delft