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[[File:Jacob Adriaensz Backer - portrait of an old woman in an armchair 14.40.603.jpg|300px|thumb|right|''Portrait of a Woman by Jacob Adriaensz Backer<br />
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York<br />
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Jacob Adriaensz Backer, born 1608 at Harlingen, Dutch province of [[Friesland (Netherlands)|Friesland]] (where his father, Adriaen Tjercksz, a baker, was a deacon of the [[Waterlanders|Waterlander]] Mennonite Church), died 27 August 1651 at [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], was a Dutch painter. He was first a pupil of [[Jacobsz, Lambert (ca. 1598-1636)|Lambert Jacobsz]], and later on of [[Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1607-1669)|Rembrandt]], whose way of painting he followed, without reaching the deep penetrating psychology of the master. Yet he was a painter of good reputation and his pictures were in high favor. An "Erection of the Cross" of 1633 is called a master piece. He chiefly painted portraits and groups (corporation and civic-guards pictures). He had many pupils, including [[Backer, Adriaen (1635-1684)|Adriaen Backer]]. After 1650 the quality of his pictures is inferior to his earlier ones. Many of his paintings must have been lost. He also made many drawings. There is a self-portrait of him, now in the museum of Lyons (France). About his life very little is known; likely he was unmarried.
= Bibliography =
Bauch, Kurt. <em>Jakob Adriaensz Backer: ein Rembrandt-Schüler aus Friesland</em>. Berlin, 1912.

Martin, Willem. <em>De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de zeventiende eeuw</em>. 3rd ed. Amsterdam : Meulenhoff, 1944: 112-114.

<em>Oud-Holland: tijdschrift voor Nederlandse kunstgeschiedenis</em> 42 (1925): 278; 43 (1926): 289-292.
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