Jacob Appel (painter)

Portrait by Jean-Baptiste Descamps in part 4 of his "La Vie des Peintres Flamands, allemands et hollandois", 1764

Jacob Appel (1680–1751) was a Dutch painter active in the 1700s. He was born in Amsterdam in 1680. After studying under Timotheus de Graaf in the years 1690-1692, he was instructed in landscape painting by David Van der Plaas.^[1] According to Descamps, he at first imitated the works of Tempesta, but later changed his style, and adopted that of Albert Meijeringh. He painted both landscapes and portraits. He died in 1751 at Amsterdam.

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This article incorporates text from the article "APPEL, Jacob" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.