About Jacob de Decker
Lived 1640 – 1680 (aged 39–40). Jacob de Decker was a Belgian painter.
Giacomo, or Jacob de Decker (1640 – 1680), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography Decker was born in 1640 in Haarlem.
According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the bentvueghels with the bentname Gulden Regen. He signed Abraham Genoels bentbrief on 3 January 1675.
According to the RKD he may have been the son of the Haarlem landscape painter Cornelis Gerritsz Decker.
He died at Rome in 1680.
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Who was Jacob de Decker?
Dutch Golden Age painter (1640-1680)
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Jacob de Decker was born in 1640.
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Jacob de Decker died in 1680.
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Jacob de Decker was a painter.
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Jacob de Decker was Belgian.
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