Giacomo, or Jacob de Decker (1640, Haarlem – 1680, Rome), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
editAccording to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the bentvueghels with the bentname Gulden Regen.[1] He signed Abraham Genoels bentbrief on 3 January 1675.[1][2]
According to the RKD he may have been the son of the Haarlem landscape painter Cornelis Gerritsz Decker.[2] He is known in Haarlem for his illustrations for Petrus Scriverius.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ a b (in Dutch) Giacomo de Dekker in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ a b c Jacob de Decker in the RKD
- ^ Olde and new descriptions of Holland, Zeeland, and Friesland, by Petrus Scriverius, Amsterdam, 1667