Jacques de Claeuw (1623–1694)

• Jacques de Claeuw, or Grieff was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Born in Dordrecht.
• According to Houbraken, together with Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, Isaac van Hasselt, and Cornelis Tegelberg, he helped separate the Dordrecht Guild of Saint Luke from the old Gild van de vyf Neringen (guild of five trades) in 1642.

• According to the RKD he was a member of the Dordrecht guild in 1642–46.

• In 1646 he became a member of the guild in the Hague.

• In 1651 he married and moved to Leiden where he became the father of Adriaen de Grijef.

• He is registered also in Haarlem in 1687.

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