About Jacob Jansz. Coeman
Lived 1632 – 1676 (aged 43–44). Jacob Jansz. Coeman was a painter.
1665 portrait of Pieter Cnoll with his Eurasian wife Cornelia van Nijenroode and their daughters by Jacob Jansz. Coeman, Rijksmuseum
Jacob Jansz. Coeman (Amsterdam? ca 1632- 9 April 1676, Batavia, Dutch East Indies ) was a Dutch painter of portraits. Coeman worked in the style of Thomas de Keyser.
In 1655 he married Hester Wils, either from Haarlem or Den Briel. His father lived in Kalverstraat and was a supervisor in the schutterij. The couple had two children. In 1663 he left for Batavia. Besides Joan Maetsuycker and Johan Bax van Herenthals he famously painted a portrait of Pieter Cnoll with his half Japanese wife Cornelia van Nijenroode and his family in Batavia.
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Dutch painter (1632-1676)
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Jacob Jansz. Coeman was born in 1632 in Amsterdam.
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Jacob Jansz. Coeman died on 9 April 1676 in Batavia.
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Jacob Jansz. Coeman was a painter.
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Jacob Jansz. Coeman's recorded nationality: Northern Low Countries.
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