Jacques Fouquier
Flemish painter (1590-1655)
Jacques Fouquier or Jacques Fouquières, birth name Jacob (December 1590 – 1655) was a Flemish landscape painter. After training in Antwerp he worked in various places where he often obtained appointments as a painter to the court including that of the French kings. He earned great success and a very high reputation during his lifetime and was even referred to as the 'Flemish Titian'. Very few of his paintings have been preserved. His work was influential in his time and was widely circulated thanks to the reproductions made by various contemporary engravers.
Life
There has in the past been some uncertainty about various aspects of Jacques Fouquier's life such as his birth date and place and the masters he studied with. He was traditionally believed to have been born in Antwerp at about 1580. Wolfgang Stechow was able to show in 1930 that his birth date should be placed around 1590. He came to this conclusion on the basis of an autograph inscription by Fouquier on a drawing dated 1604 kept in the Art Collection of the University of Göttingen (inv. no.
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