Jacob Grimmer
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Jacob Grimmer was a Flemish Renaissance landscape painter.
and later from Christiaen Queburgh
, both of Antwerp. He was a very skilled painter of houses, sky, and foreground views. He was a member of the Guild of St. Luke who was active as a rederijker and acted in many plays.
According to the RKD his earliest dated work is from 1546 and his latest dated work was 1589. Most of his works are landscapes and he worked together with Gillis Mostaert
. Abel Grimmer
was his son and pupil.
Biography
Grimmer was born and died in Antwerp. According to Karel van Mander he first learned to paint landscapes from Matthys CockMatthys Cock
Matthys Cock or Matthijs Wellens de Cock was a Flemish landscape painter and draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance.-Biography:...
and later from Christiaen Queburgh
Christian van den Queborn
Christian van den Queborn , was a Flemish Renaissance painter.-Biography:According to the RKD he became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1545...
, both of Antwerp. He was a very skilled painter of houses, sky, and foreground views. He was a member of the Guild of St. Luke who was active as a rederijker and acted in many plays.
According to the RKD his earliest dated work is from 1546 and his latest dated work was 1589. Most of his works are landscapes and he worked together with Gillis Mostaert
Gillis Mostaert
Gillis Mostaert was a Southern Netherlandish painter.-Biography:According to Karel van Mander, Mostaert's father was from Hulst, near Antwerp. According to the RKD, he was a painter, but he sent his sons to his own father Jan Mostaert in Haarlem...
. Abel Grimmer
Abel Grimmer
Abel Grimmer , was a Flemish Baroque painter.-Biography:He learned to paint from his father, the painter Jacob Grimmer. According to the RKD his earliest dated work is from 1586 and his latest dated work reads "162", so after 1620...
was his son and pupil.
External links
- Biography at Web Gallery of ArtWeb Gallery of ArtThe Web Gallery of Art is a virtual art gallery website. It displays historic European visual art, mainly from the Baroque, Gothic and Renaissance periods....
- Jacob Grimmer on ArtnetArtnetartnet is an online service provider for the international art market with headquarters in New York, Berlin and Paris. Additionally, artnet has regional offices in China, the UK and Russia.- Business model :...