Lambert Jacobsz (1598 – 1636)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter and preacher.
• He was born in Amsterdam.
• His parents were the Mennonite cloth merchant Jacob Theunisz and Pietertje Lubberts, 
• Jacobsz grew up on Nieuwendijk amid fellow believers, including the young Jacob Backer, a distant relative and, later, Jacobsz’s pupil and assistant.
• Jacobsz’s teacher was likely Jan Pynas.
• According to the RKD, his apprentices were Govert Flinck, Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Heere Innes, and his son.
• In 1620, he married Aechje Thonis (d. before 1632).
• After Jacobsz took up residence in Leeuwarden, he also began to work as an art dealer. 
• He died at Leeuwarden.
• He succumbed to the plague on June 27, 1636, three days after his 2nd wife Hillegont Dircks. 
• Much of his work is still located in the buildings for which it was painted in Leeuwarden.
• Jacobsz initially and primarily painted small-scale history scenes after his own designs.
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