Juriaen Jacobsze

Juriaen Jacobsz or Georg Albert Jacobsz (December 17, 1624, Hamburg – 1685, Leeuwarden), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait and animal painter. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Frans Snyders in Antwerp and a teacher of Hendrik Carré in Leeuwarden.[1] In Leeuwarden he became court painter to Henry Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietz in Leeuwarden.[1] According to the RKD he was in Antwerp from 1652–1658, in Amsterdam from 1659–1664 and travelled to Leeuwarden in 1665, where he stayed.[2] His pupils were Hendrik Carré and David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl.[2]

Michiel de Ruyter and his family by Juriaen Jacobsze, 1662

References

1. (in Dutch) Juriaan Jacobsze Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
2. Juriaen Jacobsz in the RKD