Artist
Jacob van Oost
Habsburg Netherlands, 1603–1671
Jacob van Oost was a Habsburg Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting painter. 22 works are cataloged here, principally at Groeningemuseum, most of them oil paintings. Jacob van Oost was born in Bruges.
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.
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