# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-van-oost
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:24:16.165Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-van-oost"
name: "Jacob van Oost"
slug: "jacob-van-oost"
description: "Jacob van Oost or Jacob van Oost the Elder (1603–1671) was a Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits. He was the most important painter of Bruges in the 17th century through his portraits of members of the local bourgeois and his many altarpieces made in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation. He also created genre paintings of musicians and card players for the open market."
tagline: "Flemish Baroque painter (1603-1671)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Oost_the_Elder%2C_Jacob_van_-_David_with_the_Head_of_Goliath_-_1648.jpg/330px-Oost_the_Elder%2C_Jacob_van_-_David_with_the_Head_of_Goliath_-_1648.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1603-07-01"
deathDate: "1671"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.7
  momentum:             7.904761904761905
  historical:           10.07897866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4685534"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_van_Oost_der_%C3%84ltere"
    title: "Jakob van Oost der Ältere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%80_%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%8C%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%84"
    title: "Γιάκομπ φαν Όοστ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Oost"
    title: "Jacob van Oost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Oost_(I)"
    title: "Jacob van Oost (I)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Oost_le_Vieux"
    title: "Jacob van Oost le Vieux"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_I_van_Oost"
    title: "Jacob I van Oost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Oost_(starszy)"
    title: "Jacob van Oost (starszy)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_van_Oost"
    title: "Jacob van Oost"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Ост, Якоб ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B%D1%81%D1%8B"
    title: "Якоб ван Ост олысы"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/63686c63-a6b7-4177-9455-a493d8ead4bf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q388619"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump