- JORDAENS, Jacob
(1593-1678)
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Painter
- Jacob Jordaens was born and died in Antwerp where he
worked as an assistant to Rubens. After Rubens's death he finished the
incomplete works ordered for Spain, van Dyck's pretensions making it impossible to negotiate with him. He is an example of the pervasive effect of Rubens's
style, for he uses a boisterous, restless type of
Baroque derived from Rubens,
but without his taste and control, or his imagination and versatility in design
and colour. Late in life he became a Calvinist and his style accordingly became
more sober, but he continued to accept Catholic commissions. He worked for
the House of Orange on portraits and decorations during the 1630s, and his
late works include large genre scenes of drinking bouts - Le Roi boit in Brussels
is an example - of overtones of Brouwer and Steen.
There are works in
Antwerp, Belfast, Bristol, Brunswick, Brussels, Budapest, Cassel, Cleveland
Ohio, Dresden, Karlsruhe, Lille, London (NG, Wallace Coll.), Madrid, New
York (Met. Mus.), Paris (Louvre), Southampton, Stockholm and Stonyhurst
College Lanes. (The Four Doctors of the Church).
- Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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