Jacques Ignatius de Roore

Jacques Ignatius de Roore or Jacobus Ignatius de Roore (Antwerp, 20 July 1686 – The Hague, 17 July 1747) was a Flemish painter, copyist, art dealer and art collector who worked in the Southern Netherlands and the Dutch Republic.

De Roore was born in Antwerp in 1686 as the son of Erik de Roore, a dealer in paintings and antiques, and Anna Maria van der Haegen, the daughter of a painter. He started his training as a painter with Jan Sebastiaen Loybos in 1699. He briefly interrupted his artistic studies after his mother died on 15 February 1701 and trained with his uncle Karel van der Haegen as a goldsmith. He was able to start his study of painting again through the intervention of the leading Antwerp painter Abraham Genoels. He trained from 1701 to 1703 with the Brussels tapestry designer Lodewijk van Schoor who had established himself in Antwerp in 1696.

De Roore left with van Schoor for Brussels in May 1703 to find another teacher but was unsuccessful. He returned to his hometown where he studied for a while with the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp. On 7 December 1705 he won the first prize for life drawing of the Antwerp Academy. On 17 March 1706 he joined the workshop of Kasper Jacob van Opstal. In 1707 he became a free master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.

He worked initially as a copyist of the works of the leading Antwerp masters. His first signed work was a religious composition painted for the St. James' Church in Antwerp in 1709. He found it difficult to obtain regular work and wished to leave for Italy in 1710 but was prevented from doing so by his legal guardian. He married Joanna Catharina van der Cammen on 14 February 1712 and had a daughter who died in infancy.

De Roore received commissions for paintings and decorations in the Antwerp City Hall from around 1715. These works gained him a reputation and commissions from patrons in the Dutch Republic, where he worked in Amsterdam in 1720. He returned to Antwerp for a brief period and then took on more commissions in Amsterdam. After the death of his wife in Antwerp on 15 March 1722, de Roore sold all his property in Antwerp and settled in Amsterdam. Subsequently he moved to Rotterdam and finally to The Hague where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke. In the Dutch Republic the artist worked on multiple decorative paintings for houses in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague.

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