Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht (1613, Dordrecht – 1691, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Biography
editAccording 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 Dordrecht 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
edit- ^ (in Dutch) Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht Biography, De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature.
- ^ a b Jacob van de Roer, historici.nl. Accessed 7 January 2023.
- ^ Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, RKD. Accessed 7 January 2023.