Jacob Savery

Jacob Savery or Jacob Savery the Elder (1566 – buried 23 April 1603) was a Flemish painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was trained in Antwerp and later moved to the Dutch Republic after 1584. He specialised in still lifes, animals, landscapes en genre paintings. As Anabaptists, the Savery family was forced to leave their native Flanders for fear of Spanish persecution 1580. The Savery family first stayed in Antwerp which had a Calvinist government. Savery was mentioned as the best student of the landscape painter Hans Bol. This must have been in Antwerp in the period from 1580 to 1583.

Jacob Savery settled around 1584 in Haarlem. Here he married Trijntgen Kokelen on 22 March 1587. The family moved to Amsterdam where in 1587, Jacob joined the Guild of St Luke.