Jacob de Wit
Paintings
Moses elects the Council of Seventy Elders
Apollo and Diana
Venus, Bacchus and Ceres observing the sleeping Cupid
Paris and Oenone
Putti with Mirrors
Jupiter Disguised as a Shepherd Seducing Mnemosyne the Goddess of Memory
Jupiter Disguised as Diana Seducing the Nymph Callisto
A Celebration of Summer
Drawings
The Trial by fire of Gaius Mucius Scaevola
Study for the figure of Moses
Apollo and Thetis
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Moses elects the Council of Seventy Elders
Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 – 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.
Biography
Door piece in Old City Hall (The Hague) illustrating Audi alteram partem.
Wall grisaille by Jacob de Wit
Book of engravings by Jan Punt after the lost ceiling pieces by Jacob de Wit, 1751, collection Teylers Museum
De Wit was born in Amsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or ceiling paintings done by him. Since many of the families who lived in Amsterdam in those days had country villas, de Wit also painted in houses in the fashionable areas of Haarlem and the Vecht river.
According to the RKD he was the pupil of Albert van Spiers in Amsterdam and Jacob van Hal in Antwerp where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1714.[1] While in Antwerp, he made a series of watercolor sketches of the Rubens ceilings in the Carolus Borromeuskerk in Antwerp. After the church was struck by lightning in 1718 these became a historical document, and his pupil Jan Punt later engraved his sketches and published them in 1751.[2][3] His pupils were Jan de Groot (painter from The Hague), Dionys van Nijmegen, Jan Punt, Pieter Tanjé, and the brothers Frans and Jacob Xavery. De Wit died in Amsterdam in 1754.[1] Tako Hajo Jelgersma was his follower.[1]
Major works
Baptism of Christ in the Jordan (1716) – Chalk and Pen Drawing
Adoration of the Shepherds (1726) – Oil on Canvas
Holy Family and Trinity (1726) – Oil on Canvas
Location of paintings
One of his paintings for a door in Heemstede now hangs in Uppsala, Sweden, in the Linnaeus museum.
A set of paintings of the four seasons depicting cherubs painted in a three-dimensional monochrome style now hangs at Hinton Ampner house in Hampshire.
Another of his three-dimensional monochrome style cherub paintings hangs in Kingston Lacy house in Dorset.
Old City Hall (The Hague)
Museum Willet-Holthuysen
References
Jacob de Wit in the RKD
Wit, Jacob de biography by Christiaan Kramm
De Plafonds of Gallery-stukken uit de Kerk der P.P. Jesuiten, te Antwerpen, geschilderd door P.P. Rubens, geteekend door J. de Wit, en op koper gebragt door Jan Punt, Amsterdam, 1751
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