Jacob de Gheyn II
{{Short description|Dutch painter and engraver}}
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Jacob de Gheyn II (also Jacques de Gheyn II) ({{circa|1565}} – 29 March 1629) was a Dutch painter and engraver, whose work shows the transition from Northern Mannerism to Dutch realism over the course of his career.
Biography
File:Jacques de Gheyn (II) - Venus and Cupid - c.1605-1610.jpg
De Gheyn was born in Antwerp and received his first training from his father, Jacob de Gheyn I, a glass painter, engraver, and draftsman.[http://www.artnet.com/library/03/0319/T031910.asp Gheyn, de]. (2000). The Grove Dictionary of Art. Retrieved January 26, 2007. In 1585, he moved to Haarlem, where he studied under Hendrik Goltzius for the next five years. He moved again, to Leiden, in the middle of the 1590s. His work attracted the attention of wealthy sponsors, and his first commission was for an engraving of the Siege of Geertruidenberg from Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. This event, from 27 March to 24 June 1593, had been more of a demonstration of power by Prince Maurits, than an actual war, and had even attracted tourists.{{citation needed|date=June 2025}} As a publicity stunt, the siege and its subsequent engraving were successful in propagating an image of Prince Maurits as an able general.
Around 1600, de Gheyn abandoned engraving, and focused on painting and etching. Moving to The Hague in 1605, he was employed often by Dutch royalty, designing a garden in the Buitenhof for Prince Maurice of Orange which featured the two first grottoes in the Netherlands. After Prince Maurice's death in 1625, de Gheyn worked for his brother, Prince Frederick Henry. De Gheyn painted some of the earliest female nudes, vanitas, and floral still lifes in Dutch art. He is credited with creating over 1,500 drawings, including landscapes and natural history illustrations. He produced 117 engravings for the military manual The Exercise of Armes while living in Amsterdam.{{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=501&page=1|title=Jacques de Gheyn II|publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust|access-date=January 26, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821094834/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=501&page=1|archive-date=August 21, 2007|url-status=dead}}{{cite web | url=http://www.artnet.com/library/03/0319/T031911.asp | title=Jacques de Gheyn II The Grove Dictionary of Art. | access-date=January 26, 2007 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020128184855/http://www.artnet.com/library/03/0319/T031911.asp |archive-date=January 28, 2002}}
De Gheyn married Eva Stalpaert van der Wiele of Mechelen in 1595. His son, Jacob de Gheyn III, was born in 1596, and grew to become an engraver in his own right, as well as the subject of a portrait by Rembrandt.Kren, Emil, & Marx, Daniel. [http://www.wga.hu/bio/g/gheyn/biograph.html Gheyn, Jacob de II]. (n.d.) ''Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved January 26, 2007. De Gheyn died in The Hague.
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File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_(II)_-_Vanitas_Still_Life_-_1603.jpg
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File:'Vase of Flowers with a Curtain', oil on panel painting by Jacques de Gheyn II, 1615.jpg|'Vase of Flowers with a Curtain', 1615.
File:Jacob de Gheyn - Wapenhandelinge 4.jpg|Engraving of musketeer from his Wapenhandelinge"De Wapenhandelinghe van Roers, Musketten ende Spiesen", 1608
File:Jacob de Gheyn (II) Spanish battle stallion 1603.jpg|Spanish battle stallion 1603.
Image:Vier studies van een zieke muis, RP-T-1880-A-98.jpg|Drawing in waterpaint by Jacques de Gheyn, Four times a mouse
References
External links
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- [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/gheyn_ii_jacques_de.html Jacob de Gheyn II at Artcylopedia]
- [https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?objectId=1537695&partId=1&searchText=Jacob+de+Gheyn&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&numPages=10¤tPage=1&queryAll=People%2f!!%2fOR%2f!!%2f123723%2f!%2f123723-2-70%2f!%2fPublished+by+Jacob+de+Gheyn+II%2f!%2f%2f!!%2f%2f!!!%2f&allCurrentPage=1 Works by Jacob de Gheyn II in the British Museum]
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/65202/rec/17 Vermeer and The Delft School], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Jacob de Gheyn II
- {{cite journal|last1=Boom|first1=Florence Hopper|title=An Early Flower Piece by Jacques de Gheyn II|journal=Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art|date=1975|volume=8|issue=4|pages=195–198|doi=10.2307/3780384|jstor=3780384}}
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