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Jacob Duck

c. 1600-1667 Holland/Baroque

 

Brief Biography-Jacob Duck was from Utrecht, where he trained to be a goldsmith as a young man. He later received his art tuition from Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot and entered the Utrecht Guild of Saint Luke. The works of William Duyster and Pieter Codde influenced him. His career took him to Haarlem, the Hague and Utrecht, but he was not known to have ventured outside of Holland.

 

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a cavalier selling
his good

a cavalier selling his good]

a couple in an
interior

a couple in an interior with a gypsy fortune teller

a
guardroom interior

a guardroom interior

a guardroom interior
with seated woman

a guardroom interior with a seated woman amongst plunder

almsgiving in a
notary's office

almsgiving in a notary's office

bordello scene with
sleeping couple

bordello scene with sleeping couple

dividing
the spoils

dividing the spoils


gallant scene

gallant scene

guardroom with
soldiers playing cards

guardroom with soldiers playing cards by Jacob Duck


soldier's rest

soldier's rest


the distraint

the distraint


the wine tasters

the wine tasters