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Jacob Adriaensz Backer - Portrait of Sara de Bie
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The esteemed portraitist Backer painted this likeness of Lutma’s wife as a pendant to that of the silversmith himself. Few artists had themselves portrayed like this, together with their spouse. Johannes Lutma clearly aspired to an elevated social status. Not just for himself, but also for the art he practised.
Although Jacob de Backer (1555–1591) left us a substantial number of paintings and drawings, very little is known of his brief life and career. De Backer joined the workshop of Antonio van Palermo, who reportedly worked his pupil so hard that the strain eventually lead to his premature demise at the age of thirty. Despite this short lived period of activity, De Backer must have produced many versions and copies of his Last Judgment.
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