12 Facts About Jacques d'Arthois

Jacques d'Arthois was a Flemish painter and tapestry designer who specialized in wooded landscapes with figures.

Jacques d'Arthois often depicted the woods around his native Brussels.

Jacques d'Arthois was an influential painter and one of the few 17th century landscape painters from Brussels whose fame was remembered in the following centuries as his style was imitated and followed by many other landscape artists.

Jacques d'Arthois was born in Brussels as the son of Henri Artois.

Jacques d'Arthois became a master in the Brussels Guild of St Luke in 1634.

Jacques d'Arthois married Maria Sampels with whom he had eight children.

Jacques d'Arthois was already at that time deemed to be a skillful artist in that specialty.

Jacques d'Arthois was a landscape painter who specialized in wooded landscapes with figures.

Jacques d'Arthois was influenced by other landscape artists of his time such as Denis van Alsloot and especially Lodewijk de Vadder.

Nevertheless, based on the engravings made by Wenceslaus Hollar around 1650 after works by Jacques d'Arthois, it is possible to ascertain that his early works were quite close to the paintings of Lodewijk de Vadder.

Jacques d'Arthois is a key member of the landscape painters active in Brussels in the 17th century who are collectively referred to as the Sonian Forest painters because of their interest in depicting the Sonian Forest in the environs of Brussels.

Jacques d'Arthois was particularly skilled at painting tree trunks covered in moss and ivy.