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Jacob Adriaensz Backer

1608–1651 · Dutch Republic

Born: 1608 · Harlingen
Died: 1651 · Amsterdam

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Jacob Adriaensz Backer was a Dutch Golden Age painter who produced approximately 140 paintings over twenty years, including portraits, religious subjects, and mythological paintings. He is also noted for his drawings of male and female nudes.

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Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608 – 27 August 1651) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He produced about 140 paintings in twenty years, including portraits, religious subjects, and mythological paintings. In his style, he was influenced by Wybrand de Geest, Rubens and Abraham Bloemaert. He is also noted for his drawings of male and female nudes.

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Selected registered works by Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Selected from 33 works by Jacob Adriaensz Backer in the Collect24 Registry.

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

A Young Man with a Fur Hat Holding a Staff (recto); Study of the Head of a Man with a White Collar (verso), late 1640s

Black chalk heightened with white chalk, on blue paper

30.1 × 20.3 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-212843

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer

Portrait of a Woman, about 1647

Oil on canvas

95.3 × 74.9 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-136441

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Portrait of Abraham de Visscher (1605-67). Amsterdam merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company, c. 1651

canvas

127 × 98 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-110138

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Portrait of Machtelt Bas (?-1681), c. 1651

canvas

126 × 98 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-110136

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Portrait of the Regents of the Nieuwezijds Institute for the Outdoor Relief of the Poor, Amsterdam, c. 1650, c. 1650

canvas

273 × 314 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-108193

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Portrait of Sara de Bie, c. 1646

panel

92.9 × 73 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-108024

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Portrait of Johannes Lutma, c. 1646

panel

93 × 73 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-108023

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Johannes Wtenbogaert, 1638

canvas

122.5 × 98 cm

Rijksmuseum

C24-105361

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Officers and other Civic Guardsmen of the V District in Amsterdam under the command of Captain Cornelis de Graeff and Lieutenant Hendrick Lauwrensz, 1642

canvas

Rijksmuseum

C24-108194