Jacob Toorenvliet
Jacob Toorenvliet, sometimes Jacob Torenvliet, Jacob Toornvliet, or Jacob van Toorenvliet (* 1640 in Leiden, † January 3, 1719 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch painter and etcher.
Life and work
Jacob Toorenvliet was baptized on 1 July 1640 the Hooglandse Kerk to suffering. His father and teacher was Abraham Toorenvliet I., a respected glass painter and drawing teacher in Leiden. Probably took over this only the first part of the training and sent Jacob then to his brother Gerard Dou apprenticed. A first, signed self-portrait Jacob Toorenvliets dated from 1655, when he was 15 years old.
To 1659 ended Toorenvliets training; from the same year also dates his first paintings. From 1663 he was probably on the road, which should have caused him over Flanders to Vienna and a first time to Rome, since 1669 he painted a portrait of the end because at that time in Rome Orient travelers Karel Quina. After a short stay in the Netherlands, he broke in 1670 along with Nikolaes Roosendael again to Rome.
Between 1670 and 1673 Toorenvliet be held at Venice, where he probably married his first wife. From this time a drawing is obtained, which is denoted by " J Torenvliet Venetie f ". Probably moved Toorenvliet 1673/74 with a wife and child to Vienna, where he remained until mid- 1679 and primarily painted representations of half-length figures on small copper plates, as well as allegories and histories. Remarkable and unique are its coming from this creative period Jews representations.
After the death of the two sons (1678 and 1679 ) and the outbreak of the plague went Toorenvliet mid- 1679, initially for a short time after suffering back, where he met his second wife Susanna Verhulst, with whom he moved to Amsterdam in the spring of 1680. There, his children Lidia ( 1680) and Abraham ( 1682) came to the world. Toorenvliet had been adopted in Leiden Jacobus van der Sluys than students who followed him to Amsterdam to continue his education there can. Later Jacob Toorenvliet also taught his son Abraham in painting.
1686 Toorenvliet came back to Leiden and carried himself in the local Sint- Lucas Guild in which he henceforth regularly held the post of captain or a dean. He also founded around 1694 together with Willem van Mieris and Carel de Moor in Leiden a Tekenacademie ( Drawing Academy ). His position as a director, however, he gave up again before 1704. 1712 ended his membership in the Sint- Lucas Guild. 1717 is his name again in the files of the University of Leiden, where he is registered as informator pingendi. Jacob Toorenvliet died in 1719 at the age of 79 years and was buried in Oegstgeest, a village on the outskirts of suffering.
Jacob Toorenvliets painting has its origins in the Leiden genre painting. Although Toorenvliets paintings have fine scenic elements, you can still not call them works of a fine painter. Toorenvliet takes in his work influences on different kinds, but merges them in a refreshing and intelligent manner with their own forms of expression. This these paintings can be seen always as creations Jacob Toorenvliets. The many copies and fakes of his work, however, led to a distortion of the quality of his work and thus to an entirely unjustified devaluation of this painter.
The painter Christoph Toorenvliet is the current state of research does not (!) The son of Jacob van Toorenvliet.