Jacob de Wolf
Jacob de Wolf (1630, in Groningen – 1685, in Groningen), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
According to Houbraken he was a friend of the painter Johan Starrenberg.[1] Unable to gain favor with buyers, he became depressed when he saw the works of lesser painters selling for higher prices than his own work.[1] He planted a bayonet pointed upwards in the corner of his room, and fell backwards upon it, and this suicide spurred the poet Lud. Smids to make two poems in his memory.[1]
According to the RKD he is possibly the same person as J. de Wolf, a draughtsman specialized in genre pieces and farm scenes, who followed Gerrit Adriaensz De Heer.[2]
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References
- (in Dutch) Jacob de Wolf Biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- Jacob de Wolf in the RKD
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