Jacques Backereel - landscape with figures

Jacques Backereel Jacques Backereel
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, p. 1074 ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen''

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 ...

, Jaques Backereel, 1718 (

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,

, c. 1590 – Antwerp, after 1658), was a Flemish

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

landscape painter. After training in Antwerp he worked for some time in Rome. He is mainly known for large-scale landscape paintings.

Life

Little is known about the early life of Backereel. He is believed to have been born in Antwerp. The date of his birth is placed between roughly 1580 and 1602. Most likely he was born in the late 1590s as he started his apprenticeship in 1612. His teacher was Tobias Verhaecht, a landscape painter who had been the first teacher of RubensPh. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 1, Antwerp, 1864, p. 174, 491, on Google books Jacques became a master in the Antwerp

Guild of St. 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 Four Evangelists, Evangelist Saint Luke, Luke, the patron sa ...

in 1618. Jacques Backereel is documented in Rome in the period from 1626 to 1638. Jacques Backereel - Wooded landscape with travellers on a path

Jacques Backereel was the teacher of Hendrick Backereel (1645), the landscape painter Abraham Genoels, Jan Baptist Huybrecht (1658) and the engraver Franciscus van der Steen II (1658).Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde''
Volume 2, Antwerp, 1864, p. 174, 296, on Google books. The Netherlands Institute for Art History entry on Jacques Backereel erroneously states that the engraver

Franciscus van der Steen Franciscus van der Steen (Antwerp, c. 1625 – Vienna, 1672) was a Flemish painter and engraver who was active in Vienna. He is now mainly known for his reproductive prints after master paintings and various publications containing portraits of p ...

was his pupil. The master of Franciscus van der Steen was in fact Alexander Voet the Elder, see: Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, Volume 2, p. 105 The artist is believed to have died in Antwerp between 1658 and 1678.

Work

Jacques Backereel was a landscape painter. Very few works have been attributed to him with certainty. Numerous landscapes by a Backereel were mentioned in Antwerp inventories from 1649 onwards and later in the papers of the Forchondt art dealers of Antwerp. It is believed that they were painted by Jacques Backereel. A number of these are specified as large paintings.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Backereel, Jacques 1590s births 1668 deaths Flemish Baroque painters Flemish landscape painters Painters from Antwerp Expatriates of the Holy Roman Empire in Italy