Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Duchy of Brabant (Belgium)
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Jacob Jordaens 🇧🇪

Jacob Jordaens (Known as "Jacob Jordaens")
Premier Flemish Baroque Painter, Master of The King Drinks and Antwerp Triumphs
Born May 19, 1593 🇧🇪 Antwerp, Belgium
Passed Away Oct 18, 1678 Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant (Belgium)
Lifespan 85 years old
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"Joy is the natural fruit of honest labor, and laughter the best wine at any Christian table."

Archival Overview

One of the triumvirate of Flemish Baroque painting alongside Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, celebrated for boisterous peasant feasts, monumental mythological canvases, and vibrant biblical scenes.

Biographical Record

Apprenticed to Adam van Noort in Antwerp, Jordaens was admitted to the Guild of Saint Luke in 1615 and became its dean in 1621. Unlike Rubens and Van Dyck, he never traveled to Italy, cultivating a distinct, robustly Flemish idiom characterized by warm, exuberant realism.

His famous masterpieces including The King Drinks (Twelfth Night banquet) and As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young captured Flemish communal joy with unmatched vivacity. He completed prestigious international commissions including the decoration of the Huis ten Bosch palace in The Hague.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Protestant Cemetery of Putte (across the Dutch border due to his Calvinist faith)
Putte (Woensdrecht), Netherlands
GPS: 51.3583, 4.3944
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