 Jacob De Backer I is primarily known as Jacob de Backer I
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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
An Allegory of the Burden of Old Age
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According to Karel van Mander, de Backer was abandoned as a young boy by his father, also a painter, who had to flee Antwerp because of an impending court trial. Jacob then worked for several years in the studio of Antonio van Palermo (1503/13–before 1589) and later entered the workshop of Hendrick van Steenwijck. Van Mander further claimed that the strenuous labour that van Palermo had imposed on the young man had so wrecked his health that he died at the age of 30, in the arms of his former ma (showing 500 of 3183 characters). |
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