Jacob Moelaert

Jacob Moelart or Moelaert (1649–1732) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art collector.

Jacob Moelaert (Nicolaas Verkolje)

Biography

He was born and died in Dordrecht. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Nicolaes Maes and learned how to paint a good portrait, but was better at history paintings.[1]

According to the RKD he is known for his art collection as well as his paintings.[2]

gollark: Which reminds me, I wonder if the OnStat database has grown to unreasonably huge sizes yet. It never deletes historical latency data.
gollark: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/4af6523dcff1e8e4b1115053cfd8fb8c51eff6126540f0a37a8bd1ea18d0b6a3/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f723255696150742e706e67
gollark: No, I mean the idea. The graphs look nice.
gollark: https://github.com/Xkeeper0/ping-graphThis could actually be quite good in onstat.
gollark: None are safe.

References
  1. (in Dutch) Jacob Moelart Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. Jacob Moelart in the RKD
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