Jacob de Gheyn II belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Jacob de Gheyn II as Dutch painter and engraver (c.1565-1629).
Jacob de Gheyn II was born at Antwerp in 1565. His recorded nationality is Belgium.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, graphic artist and visual artist.
Among his best-known works are Flowers in a Glass Flask, Venus and Cupid and Spanish Warhorse. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Belgium shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jacob de Gheyn II died in 1629, aged 64. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Flowers in a Glass Flask
- Notable work: Venus and Cupid
- Notable work: Spanish Warhorse
