Jacob Adriaensz Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years, including portraits, religious subjects, and mythological paintings. In his style, he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. He is also noted for his drawings of male and female nudes.
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The Hearing by Jacob Backer (1635), oil painting, Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Company of Cornelis de Graeff and luitenant Hendrick Lauwrensz by Jacob Backer (1642)
Perhaps this portrait of a woman in an armchair by Backer seemed more attractive to the sitter mentioned by Sandrart than the portraits by Frans Hals of her Haarlem contemporaries, the Voogt sisters, and that is why she travelled to Amsterdam for her portrait to be done.Artists born in the 1600s 6
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Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1608 to 1651 · aged 43
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