Jacob Backer
(1608–1651) Dutch Golden Age painter (1608-1651)
Jacob Backer (1608–1651) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jacob Backer belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Jacob Backer was born in Harlingen and died in Amsterdam. Wikidata associates Jacob Backer with Baroque. The students included Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel.
The best-known works include ‘Portrait of a Boy in Gray’, ‘Portrait of a Man’, and ‘Shepherd with flute’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 81 works by Jacob Backer with free images. The dated works span the years 1629–1700. Works by Jacob Backer are held by several collections, among them Amsterdam Museum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Mauritshuis, and Rijksmuseum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Aniello Falcone, Francesco Cairo, Jan Lievens, Erasmus Quellinus, and Cornelis Saftleven.