Giacomo van Lint

Giacomo van Lint or Jacob van Lint (Rome, 8 February 1723 – Rome, 1 August 1780) was an Italian landscape and vedute painter of Flemish descent, active in Rome.

He was the son of Hendrik Frans van Lint, one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half of the 18th century. Like his father, he supplied a clientele of local patrons as well as European travelers on their Grand Tour with views of the ancient and modern monuments of Rome as well as views of the Roman Campagna.

Life Giacomo van Lint was born on 8 February 1723 in Rome, where he was baptized in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. He was the son of Hendrik Frans van Lint and his wife, Ludovica Margarete Tassel. Giacomo was the eldest of the couple's ten children, of whom only six survived. Hendrik Frans van Lint had settled before 1700 in Rome where he had become a successful vedute painter.

Henry Hoare's print collection at Stourhead in England is thought to have been hand-coloured in a collaborative effort by Giacomo and his father Hendrik Frans van Lint. In a manuscript catalogue, the colouring of these prints is attributed to a 'Mr Studio'. The technique is consistent with Hendrik Frans van Lint's paintings but evidence, including a recorded comment regarding the 'young Studio', suggests that the colouring may have been a family enterprise.