Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht

Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht (1613, Dordrecht – 1691, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who mentioned him in passing with a list of painters from Dordrecht, he first learned from Cornelis Bisschop, and later became a pupil of Jan de Baen, who taught him portrait painting.[1] He travelled to London and couldn't compete with Godfrey Kneller as a portrait painter, but Kneller hired him to paint clothing and less important parts of Kneller's paintings.[2] Roer van Dordrecht returned to Dordt and later died in the Gasthuis there.[2]

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Godfrey Kneller and is only known as a draughtsman of decorations on title pages.[3]

References

  1. ↑ (in Dutch) Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. 1 2 Jacob van de Roer in Abraham van der Aa
  3. ↑ Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht in the RKD
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