Jacob Neefs
File:Jacob Neefs, Jacob Jordaens (after) - Nosce Te Ipsum (Allegory of Vanity).jpg), engraving by Jacob Neefs after a drawing by Jacob Jordaens]]
Jacob Neefs or Jacob NeeffsAlternate spellings of surname: Neeffs and alternative first names: Jakob, Jacques and Jacobus (1610 in Antwerp – after 1660 in Antwerp) was a Flemish etcher, engraver and publisher. He worked on publication projects for prominent Flemish artists of his time including Rubens, van Dyck and Jacob Jordaens.
Life
Jacob Neefs was a pupil of Lucas Vorsterman the Elder. In 1632-3 he was admitted as a master in the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp. In March 1632 he became a member of the 'Sodaliteit van de Bejaerde Jongmans', a fraternity for bachelors established by the Jesuit order. He married Anne Antonissen on 5 February 1655. He is last mentioned in the registers of the Guild of Saint Luke in 1661.[https://archive.today/20131105164014/http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=59038 Biographical details] at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
His pupils included Jacques vande Velde (1644–45) and Emanuel Winghen.
Work
Neefs worked as an engraver for the leading Flemish painters of his age. In Rubens' studio he belonged to the 'new generation' of engravers with the likes of Hans Witdoeck. He was one of the last to work under Rubens himself.[http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T061572 Christian Coppens. "Neeffs, Jacob." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 Nov. 2013]
He worked on the Iconography of Anthony van Dyck[https://archive.org/stream/vandyckhisorigi00hindgoog#page/n5/mode/2up Hind, Arthur M., Van Dyck, his original etchings and his iconography, Houghton Mifflin company, Boston and New York, 1915] and completed some of the portraits for the later editions of the Iconography by adding a sculptural bust and pedestal.[http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/275488 "Title page of the Iconography with self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck] It is unknown whether or not this was van Dyck's intention.[http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/337062 "Self-Portrait of Anthony van Dyck from the Iconography]
Other prominent painters for whom or after whom he made engravings include Jacob Jordaens,{{Cite web |url=http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/work/Boek%20F.A.%20gi.%20205%20(PK) |title=Print of Vanity based on a design by Jacob Jordaens |access-date=2013-11-07 |archive-date=2013-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203052648/http://collectie.boijmans.nl/en/work/Boek%20F.A.%20gi.%20205%20(PK) |url-status=dead }} Abraham van Diepenbeeck,[http://www.hnanews.org/archive/newsletters/HNAApril2013.pdf Linguae vitia et remedia] – Jacob Neefs made, jointly with Andries Pauwels, the engravings based on designs of Abraham van Diepenbeeck for the first edition of the emblem book, published by Joannes Cnobbaert in Antwerp in 1631. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030809/http://www.hnanews.org/archive/newsletters/HNAApril2013.pdf |date=2015-09-24 }} Gerard Seghers,[https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-1910-4041 Salome with the head of St John the Baptist.] Philip Fruytiers, Annibale Carracci and Theodoor van Thulden.
He collaborated on various printing projects with the leading engravers of his time including Mattheus Borrekens, Cornelis Galle the Younger, Wenceslaus Hollar, Pieter de Jode II, Theodoor van Merlen, Michel Natalis and Paulus Pontius. Between 1635 and 1659 Jacob Neeffs illustrated about 10 books, mainly published in Antwerp and Leuven.
His works are mainly executed with the burin.[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueofengra00coop/catalogueofengra00coop_djvu.txt Carrington, Fitz Roy, Catalogue of engravings and etchings presented by George A. Hearn to the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, New York, 1897, p. 19] He also gained a reputation for his drawings which demonstrate a steadiness of hand.[https://books.google.com/books?id=io_rAAAAMAAJ Biographical details in Nagler, Georg Kaspar, Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon: oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher etc, Volume 10, Munchen, 1841, p.164]
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Bibliography
- BASAN F. e.a, Dictionnaire des graveurs anciens et modernes depuis l'origine de la gravure. Avec une notice des principales estampes qu'ils ont gravées; suivi des catalogues des oeuvres de Jacques Jordans & de Corneille Visscher, vol. 2, De Lormel, Parijs, 1767, p. 60
- DELEN A., Tentoonstelling van teekeningen en prenten van Antwerpsche meesters der XVIIe eeuw (Rubens en zijn tijd) [tentoonstellingscatalogus], Antwerpen augustus 1927 – September 1927, Stad Antwerpen, 1927
- HOLLSTEIN F.W.H., Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, c. 1450–1700, Amsterdam, 1949
- VAN DEN WIJNGAERT F., Inventaris der Rubeniaansche prentkunst, Uitgeverij de sikkel, Antwerpen, 1940, p. 17
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