Jacob Willemsz. de Wet was born in Haarlem, where he worked. He may have been a pupil of Rembrandt in the 1630s. He was a figure and landscape painter.
Jacob de Wet the Elder
active 1632; died after 1675
Paintings by Jacob de Wet the Elder
This moody landscape is Jacob de Wet’s only landscape without biblical figures, though the stunted, windswept tree in the foreground and the castle tower behind it are repeated – with variations – in his painting Abraham and Melchizedek (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin). At this point in the...
Not on display