, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Jacob Jordaens
1593 - 1678
Flemish painter and tapestry designer Jacob Jordaens is known for his brightly colored canvases with mythological and religious content. The majority of his work is either in situ, frescoes executed for churches and palaces across Europe, or in tapestries. Many of his paintings were originally created as models for tapestries.
Apprenticed to painter Adam van Noort at the age of 14, Jordaens was admitted to the Guild of St. Luke as a master of watercolor painting at the age of 23. He ran a popular and active workshop of students and assistants and became one of the most successful painters and tapestry designers in the Antwerp area - second in reputation only to Peter Paul Rubens. Jordaens assisted Rubens with some of the painter’s major commissions, and became the principle painter in the region following Ruben’s death in 1640.
Birth name
Jacob Jordaens
Born
Born in Antwerp, Flanders, 19 May 1593
Died
Died in Antwerp, Flanders, 18 October 1678
Nationality
Flemish
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The High Priest Refusing Joachim's Offering
The Fall of the Damned
A Young Cavalier Executing a Levade in the Presence of Mars and Mercury
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