Jacob Leyssens or Jacob Lyssens (nickname Notenkraker) [1] (1661, Antwerp - 1710, Antwerp), was a Flemish painter and decorator. After training in Antwerp, he spent a long time in Rome. After his return to Antwerp, he was active as a painter and decorator and collaborated with prominent Antwerp still life painters such as Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger and Jan Baptist Bosschaert. [2]
He was born in Antwerp in 1661 as the son of Jacobus and Anthonetta Sas. [3] He was registered as a pupil of Peter Ykens in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1674. [4] He travelled to Rome at a young age as he is mentioned there in 1680. [5] He became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome, with the nickname ‘Notenkraker’ (Nutcracker). [6] He was probably one of the youngest Bentvueghels ever admitted. [7]
The difficult financial situation of his father caused him to return to Antwerp in 1689. [8] He was admitted as a 'wijnmeester' (wine master) to the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in the guild year 1698-1699. As this is a title reserved for the sons of members of the Guild, it demonstrates that his father was or had been also a member of the Guild. In the year in which he became a master he also recceived Jan Baptist Bellenraet as a pupil. [4]
He was active in Antwerp as a painter and decorator in the period 1698–1710. [5] He made a will on 31 January 1706 as he was ill. He lived at the time with his father in Hopland in Antwerp. [3]
Only a few of his works are known, one of which is in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. [7] He decorated many rooms and ceilings in prominent residences and buildings in Antwerp. He is known to have collaborated as a staffage painter with other artists such as Jan Baptist Bosschaert and Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen the Younger, who painted the flowers and fruits. [8]
The early Dutch biographer Jacob Campo Weyerman referred to Jacob Leyssens as a history painter, which indicates that he painted in this genre. [2] A religious painting entitled St. Joseph with the Child Jesus was listed in the inventory on the death of J.J. Moretus and was made over to the city of Antwerp in 1876 when the Plantin-Moretus printing company was sold to the city. [9]
The Bentvueghels were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent.
Cornelis Schut was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, engraver and tapestry designer who specialized in religious and mythological scenes. Presumed to have trained under Rubens, he treated Counter-Reformation subjects in a High-Baroque style. After a stay in Italy, he worked mainly in Antwerp where he was one of the leading history painters in the first half of the 17th century.
Jan Erasmus Quellinus was a Flemish painter and draughtsman and a member of the famous Quellinus family of artists. He was one of the last prominent representatives of the great Flemish school of history and portrait painting in the 17th century. His work displays the classicizing influences of his father Erasmus Quellinus the Younger and Paolo Veronese. Mainly active in his native Antwerp, he worked for some time in Vienna for the Habsburg court as a court painter to Emperor Leopold I.
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Peter Ykens, was a Flemish painter mainly known for his history paintings and portraits. He regularly collaborated with specialist still painters and landscape artists for whose works he provided the staffage.
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Jan Baptist de Crépu or Jean Baptiste de Crépu was a Walloon officer in the Spanish service and a flower painter who after retiring from military service operated a workshop in Antwerp. He trained the flower painters Simon Hardimé and Jan Baptist Bosschaert.
Pieter Hardimé was a Flemish painter known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and later moved to the Dutch Republic where he worked in The Hague. He was active as a decorative painter of flowers for wall and ceiling decorations, often in collaboration with Mattheus Terwesten.
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