Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (1608 - 1651)
Dutch Golden Age painter
Jacob Backer grew up in a Mennonite environment in Amsterdam as the son of a baker. Around 1626 he went to Leeuwarden, where he was apprenticed to the history painter Lambert Jacobsz. at the same time as Govert Flinck. In 1632 Backer returned to Amsterdam and his earliest dated painting is from that year. Backer is usually considered as part of Rembrandt's circle, they may have had contact through the Mennonite art dealer Hendrick Uylenburgh. Backer painted portraits, group portraits and history pieces, primarily in the tradition of Rubens and the Utrecht Caravaggisti.
Nathan and David
c. 1633
c. 1633
Cimone and Iphigenia
c. 1642
c. 1642
Hippocrates visiting Democritus in Abdera
John the Baptist Accusing Herod and Herodias
1633
1633
Venus, Adonis and Amor
c. 1650/51
c. 1650/51
Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1644
1644
Half naked woman with a coin
c. 1636
c. 1636
Regents of the Amsterdam Orphanage
c. 1634
c. 1634
Grandmother with Granddaughter
1639
1639
Granida and Daifilo
c. 1640
c. 1640
Young man with a red fur cap
Head of a man with a black cap and a velvet blue cloak
c. 1641
c. 1641
Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert
1638
1638
Portrait of François de Vroude
Man in a red Polish cloak, wearing a laurel wreath
c. 1637-38
c. 1637-38
Self-portrait as shepherd
Granida and Dafilo
c. 1640
c. 1640
Portrait of a Woman
1641
1641
Christ on the Cross
1631
1631
Portrait of Rebecca Schellingwou, wife of Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1644
1644
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
c. 1636
c. 1636
Portrait of a Boy in Grey
1634
1634
Allegory to the Republic
c. 1644/45
c. 1644/45
Man with beret and cane
c. 1644-45
c. 1644-45
Portrait of a Boy
c. 1640
c. 1640
Portrait of a Young Man
c. 1638/40
c. 1638/40
Saint Stephen
c. 1632/33
c. 1632/33
Portrait of a 62-Year Old Couple
c. 1635
c. 1635
Boy in a red cloak and a gold chain
c. 1637-38
c. 1637-38
Family Portrait with John the Baptist
c. 1637
c. 1637
Allegory of Taste
c. 1634
c. 1634
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
c. 1636
c. 1636
Young man as a shepherd
c. 1638
c. 1638
Portrait of a richly dressed woman behind a balustrade
c. 1647
c. 1647
Portrait of Sara de Bie, Second Wife of Jan Lutma
c. 1646
c. 1646
Portrait of Marinus Lowysse and Eva Ment, with their children, presenting the history of Christ and the Canaanite Woman
1640
1640
Portrait of Geertruid Hasselaer
c. 1647/48
c. 1647/48
Brother and Sister as Shepherds
c. 1643
c. 1643
Portrait of an old lady
Portrait of a Man
c. 1647
c. 1647
Portrait of Maria Elisabeth von Brandenburg-Bayreuth as Diana
1649
1649
Granida and Daifilo
c. 1637
c. 1637
Allegory of Sight
c. 1634
c. 1634
David gives Uriah Joab's letter
c. 1632/33
c. 1632/33
Vertumnus and Pomona
c. 1638
c. 1638
Shepherd with wreath and flute
c. 1634
c. 1634
Portrait of a Girl
c. 1639/40
c. 1639/40
Portrait of a Man
c. 1647
c. 1647
Portrait of an elder woman, possibly Anna Roefs of Rousch
c. 1633-34
c. 1633-34
Portrait of a Woman as Euterpe
c. 1649/50
c. 1649/50
Young Man
c. 1637
c. 1637
Diana and Her Nymphs
1649
1649
Cornelius the Centurion and the angel
Portrait of Jan Lutma
c. 1646
c. 1646
Shepherd
c. 1644
c. 1644
Old Woman in an Armchair
1635
1635
Saint Andrew
c. 1630
c. 1630
Old Man
c. 1632/33
c. 1632/33
Isaac and Rebecca Making Love
1640
1640
Bacchus and Ariadne
1643
1643