Jan Gaspar Dooms (6 March 1597

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– 1675

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draftsman and copperplate engraver active in Prague.

Life

Jan Gaspar came from the family of Antwerp painter Gaspar Doomer, baptismal record says he was a son of Joost Dooms and Anna van Wijck. In Antwerp Dooms studied in workshop of

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Around 1620 he moved to Prague

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, where he bought a house from Pavel Lhotský z Libětína in street ''V Jirchářích'' in 1650. In the record, he is named as Doomer from ''Pomerale'' or ''Pomeren''. Together with his son obtained

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in 1651. Jan Gaspar had a wife named Anna. It's possible, that his family cooperated or done some of the works attributed to him because Dooms's signature is changing. Some sources mention his son Gaspar, other mentions Jan. Thanks to little competition, he became a popular engraver of portraits and figural motifs already in the 1620s. Based on the signature ''sculpsit Kuttenbergae Gaspar Dooms'' on the engraving from 1658, it is clear that Dooms stayed in

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for some time. There was also another engraver Josef Calasancius Dooms active in Prague, but his relation to Jan Gaspar is unknown.

Work

Dooms created most of his copperplate engraving after his own drawings. However he engraved also motives after painter

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, as the oldest example can be polemic book with author's portrait in ''Dioikésis hoc est Moderamen differentiarum juris communis'' (Prague 1664) by Jan Jindřich Proškovský. Few

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were illustrated by engravings by Dooms after models of Škréta. The best example of cooperation with Škréta can be considered a cycle of 37 copperplate engravings from the life of

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for book ''Rosa Boemica sive Vita sancti Woytiechi'' (Praha 1668) by Matěj Benedikt Bolelucký z Hradiště. Dooms engraved also frontispiece after model of unknown draftsman Gregor Rolle for book ''Předrahý poklad pokladnice Českého království, to jest Přemilá … s. Barbora'' (Prague 1670). Dooms as well just drew up few models realised in the engraving by another Antwerp artist Jan Adriaen Gerhardt de Groos, for example, author's portrait in ''Phosphorus septicornis'' (Prague 1673) by Tomáš Pešina z Čechorodu. As his first work can be considered the portrait of Ferdinand II. in ''Explanatio huius picturae auferibilitatem Ferdinandi II.'' (Prague 1621) by Michal Pěčka z Radostic. His other artworks are engravings of allegories in ''Satyrarum liber prior'' (Prague 1622) by Michal Pěčka z Radostic, portrait of the author of the publication in ''Kalendář hospodářský a kancelářský … k létu Páně 1625'' (Prague c. 1624) by Daniel Basilius de Deutschenberg, portrait of Ferdinand III. in ''Sláva nejstarožitnějšího Arcidomu rakouského na každý den přes celý rok vysvětlená'' (Prague 1635) by Nicolaus Vernulaeus, devotional picture (''Vera effigies'') of

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(1637), portrait of canon Šimon Brosius z Horsteina (1641), Virgin Mary with kneeling

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in ''Provázek trojnásobný'' (Prague 1644), engraving of title page and four portraits of emperors Ferdinand I. to Ferdinand IV., most likely after

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in ''Ferdinandi I. II. III. IV. Universitatis Ferdinandeae Pragensis Soc. Iesu Pythagorae quaternio'' (Prague 1650). Doom's also made a depictions of

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(1652),

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in ''Thesaurus in Lucem Protractus, Sive S. Mercurius'' (Prague 1675) by Pěšina, Saint Clement or Maria Electa, portrait of abbot Matouš Ferdinand Sobek z Bílenberka (1667), blessed Angela of Brixen in ''S. Ursulae Ehr und Preysß oder S. Ursulae … Leben und glorwürdiger Marterkampff'' (Prague 1669), depiction of

Cosmas and Damian Cosmas and Damian ( ar, قُزما ودميان, translit=Qozma wa Demyaan; grc-gre, Κοσμᾶς καὶ Δαμιανός, translit=Kosmás kai Damianós; la, Cosmas et Damianus; AD) were two Arab physicians in the town Cyrrhus, and were r ...

in ''Triumphus vitae coelestis et terrestris aeternae et temporalis ... tutelario Cosmae et Damiani'' (Prague 1669), two portraits of members of

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in ''Kurz begriffener Außzug der verneuerten Lands-Ordnung'' (Prague 1671) by Johann Jacob von Weingarten, portrait of canon Michal Vojtěch Crusius z Krausenberka (1672), author's portrait in ''Horlivé předložení a jistě užitečné cvičení'' (Prague 1672) by Michal Vojtěch Krusius z Krausenberku, series of eleven saints in ''Koruna česká, to jest Pěkné a nábožné modlitby'' (Prague 1673) by Jan Ignác Dlouhoveský z Dlouhé Vsi, portrait of Martinic in ''Fürsten-Spiegel'' (Prague 1673) by Weingarten, allegory with four saints in ''Poušť svatomila, to jest Pravidlo'' (Prague 1674) by

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, frontispis with figure of saint in ''Thesaurus in lucem protractus sive S. Mercurius, maximus orientis martyr'' (Prague c. 1674) by Tomáš Pešina z Čechorodu or at least one portrait of saint in ''Thesaurus absconditus. … Verbogener geistlicher Schatz der königl. Haupt-Kirchen des Ertz-Stiffts St. Viti zu Prag'' (Prague 1680) by Jan Ignác Dlouhoveský z Dlouhé Vsi. Dooms engraved also for several books while he resided in Kutná Hora, for example frontispieces for several volumes of ''Zprávy o velikém triumfu ku poctivosti s. Františka Xaveria'' (Prague 1658) by Franciscus Natolius. There are also several leaflets attributed to Gaspar Dooms, two leaflets with ''Defenestration of vice-regents of Bohemia on 23 May 1618'' (printed 1619) and a signed leaflet with the

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and Ferdinand. II. titled ''Contra Victorem Nulla Est.'' printed by Thobias Leopoldus in 1621 in Prague.

Gallery

File:Jan Gaspar Dooms, after Karel Škréta 05.png, ''Nascitur purpureus flos'' in ''Rosa Boemica'' (1668), after Karel Škréta File:Jan Gaspar Dooms, after Karel Škréta 04.png, ''Sick St. Adalbert promised as a child at the altar to the Virgin Mary'' in ''Rosa Boemica'' (1668), after Karel Škréta File:Jan Gaspar Dooms, after Karel Škréta 02.png, ''Transport of relics of Saint Adalbert, Radim and Five Brothers to Prague'' in ''Rosa Boemica'' (1668), after Karel Škréta File:Jan Gaspar Dooms, after Karel Škréta 01.png, ''The Passion of St. Adalbert'' in ''Rosa Boemica'' (1668), after Karel Škréta File:Jan Gaspar Dooms, after Karel Škréta 03.png, ''St. Adalbert before Emperor Ota II. in Verona receiving episcopal ordination'' in ''Rosa Boemica'' (1668), after Karel Škréta File:Jan Gaspar Dooms - Saint Mercurius.png, Saint Mercurius in ''Thesaurus in Lucem Protractus (1675)'' File:Jan Gaspar Dooms - Allegorie auf den Anfang des dreißigjährigen Krieges.jpg, Leaflet ''Allegory of the beginning of the Thirty Years War'' (date unknown'')'' File:Jan Gaspar Dooms - portrait of Bernard Ignaz Martinic.jpg, Portrait of Bernard Ignác z Martinic from ''Kurtz begriffener Außzug der verneuerten Lands- Ordnung'' (1671)

References

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