# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-van-aken
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:41:28.791Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-van-aken"
name: "Joseph Van Aken"
slug: "joseph-van-aken"
description: "Josef van Aken, known in England as Joseph van Aken and Joseph Van Aken of Heacken was a Flemish genre, portrait and drapery painter who spent most of his career in England. Initially successful in England with his fashionable conversation pieces and other genre scenes, he gradually specialised as a drapery painter. Drapery painters were specialist painters who completed the dress, costumes and other accessories worn by the subjects of portrait paintings. They worked for portrait painters with a large clientele. He was recognised as one of the foremost drapery painters active in mid-18th-century England and was employed in that capacity by many leading and lesser known portrait painters of his time."
tagline: "Flemish painter (1699-1749)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hudson%2C_Thomas_van_Aken.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1699"
deathDate: "1749-07-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.04
  momentum:             0.8860759493670886
  historical:           8.272858666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Йосип ван Акен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "جوزيف فان أكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CF%8C%CE%B6%CE%B5%CF%86_%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%86%CE%BA%CE%B5%CE%BD"
    title: "Γιόζεφ βαν Άκεν"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Van_Aken"
    title: "Joseph Van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_van_Aken"
    title: "Joseph van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jozef_van_Aken"
    title: "Jozef van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_van_Aken"
    title: "Joseph van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BD%2C_%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Акен, Иосиф ван"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_van_Aken"
    title: "Joseph van Aken"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q977218"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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