Jacob van Oost

1603–1671 · Baroque

Jacob van Oost or Jacob van Oost the Elder (1603–1671) was a Flemish painter of history paintings and portraits. He was the most important painter of Bruges in the 17th century through his portraits of members of the local bourgeois and his many altarpieces made in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation. He also created genre paintings of musicians and card players for the open market.

30 paintings

• Portrait of a boy, aged 14
• Portrait of Jacob van Oost the Younger in a Gorget and a Fur Hat (1655)
• The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Elizabeth (1643)
• Portrait of a Young Woman (1650)
• Diana the Huntress
• Flight into Egypt (1650)
• Head of a bearded man with a glass of wine (1650)
• Young man leaning on his sword (David). (1640)
• An old man and a young boy (Allegory of the Ages of Man) (1645)
• De roeping van Mattheus (1641)
• The Adoration of the Shepherds
• Mercury and Jupiter in the House of Philemon and Baucis (1650)
• The Infant Christ appears to Saint Antony (1640)
• Portrait of a Bruges family (1645)
• Portrait of Jan-Filips van Boonem, Dean of the Guild of St. George in Bruges (1665)
• Christ Crowned with Thorns (1661)
• The Charity of Saint Martin (1630)
• Portrait of Fovin de Hasque (1669)
• Portrait of two Men (1940)
• Portrait of Albert de Grass and Marie-Anne Pardo with their family (1668)
• Female martyr (1640)
• Saint Antony raising a Man from the Dead (1640)
• Young Boy with a Wild Goose (1650)
• Head of Girl (1650)
• Holy Family with Donors (1665)
• David Bearing the Head of Goliath (1643)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (1630)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (St Anthony in the background) (1645)
• De dood van Seneca (1640)
• Portrait of a Girl (1650)