Isaac Jouderville (c. 1612 - 1645/48)

Dutch portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt

Being twenty in 1632, Isaac Jouderville must have been born in or around 1612. In 1629 he became a pupil of Rembrandt in Leiden. His apprenticeship was completed in 1631. After the death of his mother in December 1629 he was an orphan, but his guardians enabled his apprenticeship at an annual fee of 100 guilders. It is not sure if Jouderville followed Rembrandt to Amsterdam, but he was enrolled at Leiden university in 1632 and married in Leiden in 1636. He moved to Deventer in 1641 for a few years only; in 1643 he was in Amsterdam, where he died between in 1645 and 1648 (in this year his widow remarried) . There is only one signed work known by Jouderville, a self-portrait in Dublin. Other attributions are based on the style of this painting. {w4645}