Discover painter, military personnel Jacob van Staverden

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: Staverden, Jacomo van
Staverden, Giacomo van
Staveren, Jacob van
IJver
Yver
Vastavardon
Standaart, Jacob van
Yver (Diligence) was his bent-name (Houbraken 1721).

Qualifications: painter, military personnel
guardsman

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Amersfoort (place) 1656
probably 1656

Deceased: Rome 1716
after 1716. In 1706, 1710, 1712 and 1716 he is recorded in various deeds concerning the sale of possessions to raise money; his profession is not mentioned in these deeds.

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: He apparently came from a Dutch noble family and did not just pretend to be a nobleman, as Van Gool (1750) assumes; son of Egbertus van Staverden and Margaretha Hooft van Huysduynen, in whose house he grew up, which was located on the city wall of Amersfoort. In Rome he was married to Maria Anna Romano (before 1706) (Saur 2019).

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Amersfoort (plaats) 1672
probably until june 1672 pupil of Matthias Withoos
Rome 1674 - 1686
left for Italy with Caspar van Wittel in 1674 (presumably in the Spring); on 3 January 1675 in Rome; Bentbrief of Abraham Genoels, co-signed. According to Van Gool he was not very successful in Rome. In 1679 he was recorded as living on Strada la Croce, dal Corso, with Abraham Genoels and Gommarus Wouters (Hoogewerff 1942).
Amersfoort (plaats) 1686 - 1687
in March 1686 and January 1687 mentioned as resp. witness and comparant
Rome 1689 - 1716
lived in 1689 and in 1693-1694 together with Van Wittel in Rome. In 1694 he entered the service of the papal guard and stopped painting; had financial difficulties in 1706 (Saur 2019). In 1689 he was recorded on Piazza di Spagna, sotto la Trinità with Gaspar van Wittel; in 1691on Discesa di S. Isidoro a Porta Pinciana (alone) and in 1692 again with Gaspar van Wittel on Vicolo della Purificatione (Hoogewerff 1942)

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Withoos, Matthias
until June 1672

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, flower piece, fruit piece
Van Gool mentions flower and fruit still lifes, but now no examples are known; he is best known for Bambocciesque scenes (Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003, p. 189)

Medium/technique: oil paint

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Bentvueghels

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 2 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 2 (1719), p. 359, vol. 3 (1721), p. 80, 103 (as: Jacomo van Staverden, bent-named d'Yver)
Van Gool 1750-1751 , p. 466 (as: Jacomo van Staveren)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 654 (as: Giacomo van Staverden)
Noack 1927 , vol. 2, p. 572
Hoogewerff 1942 , p. 155, 266, 268 (in the index as Standaart (Vastavardon))
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 31 (1937), p. 500 (as: Staverden, Jacob van)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 159 (as: Staverden, Giacomo van)
Hoogewerff 1952 , p. 117 and 144
Briganti et al. 1983 , p. 337-339 (text: L. Trezzani)
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 189
Bartoni 2012 , p. 362, 529-530
Saur 1992- , vol. 105 (2019), p. 522
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

S.J. Gudlaugsson, 'Jacob van Staver(d)en', Oud-Holland 71 (1956), p. 170-171 and Oud-Holland 72 (1957), p. 125-126 (addenda)
M.W. Heijenga-Klomp, 'Jacob van Staverden en Caspar van Wittel. Twee schilders van Amersfoort te Rome', Flehite 21 (1991) no. 3/4, p. 34-42

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Project: Gerson Digital : Italy
Dutch Artists in Rome

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1994-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-03-27

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