Jacob Savery

Jacob Savery , was a Flemishborn and trained painter, etcher and draughtsman who was active in the Dutch Republic after 1584. He specialised in still lifes, animals, landscapes en genre paintings.

Jacob was born into a family of painters as the son of Maerten Savery. He probably apprenticed with the Flemish Mannerist painter Hans Bol as was reported by the early biographer Karel van Mander. As Anabaptists, the family Savery was forced to leave their native Flanders for fear of Spanish persecution c. 1580. Jacob Savery settled about 1584 in Haarlem and from there he moved to Amsterdam where in 1587 he joined the Guild of St Luke. In 1591 Jacob became a citizen of Amsterdam. He died of the plague in Amsterdam.

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