Portrait of Edward Hyde

1660 · Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

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Jacob van Reesbroeck made a good living out of his portrait painting. The portrait of Edward Hyde illustrates the high quality of his style. The calculatedly nonchalant elegance and the tactile quality of the fabrics are more indicative of contemporary Dutch portrait painting in the style of Van der helst than of Van Dyck, who in all respect was much more influential in Flanders.

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About the Artist

Jacob van Reesbroeck

1620 – 1704

Flemish painter and engraver. He studied painting as well as engraving and became a master of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1641. He received many commissions for portraits from ecclesiastical clients, local and foreign secular patrons. He was asked by Balthasar Moretus II to produce four portraits of members of the Moretus family, the owners of the Plantin Press in Antwerp. He also painted the portraits of prominent aristocrats such as those of Charles-Antoine de Calonne and Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg. In 1682 Van Reesbroeck moved his residence to Hoogstraten, a small town in the immediate vicinity of Antwerp. In Hoogstraten he painted four paintings representing the four church fathers for the St John the Evangelist Church of the local beguinage. These are the only known works in his oeuvre which are not portraits.

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