Jean Ducamps

Jean Ducamps, Giovanni di Filippo del Campo or Giovanni del Campo[1] (1600, Cambrai[2] or Cambrai – 1648, Madrid), was a Flemish Baroque painter who spent most of his career in Italy where he enjoyed renown for his religious compositions, genre scenes and allegories.

[3] His first biographer Joachim von Sandrart stated that Ducamps learned to paint from Abraham Janssens in Antwerp.

[2][4][6] On 8 July 1631 Ducamps and his friend Jacomo Cabrijol (Capriola) were involved in a drunken brawl in which they attacked the painters Marcus Wouters and Hendrik van Houten.

He travelled to Madrid around 1637 and 1638 in the company of the Manuel de Moura Corte Real, 2nd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo, ambassador to Rome of Philip IV of Spain.

[4] In Madrid he is said to have obtained commissions from the Spanish king Philip IV as well as have worked for his compatriots from Flanders who had established themselves in Spain such as Philippe François, 1st Duke of Arenberg.

A key work in his oeuvre is the Allegory of virtuous love (private collection, formerly on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery).

In the deposition Bramer states that 40 years earlier he had bought in Rome a painting by Giovanni di Filippo del Campo depicting a 'standing angel, seen to the hips, with two wings and a sheep's skin around his body and a small laurel crown in his hand'.

These works show a stylistic kinship with the Caravaggists Cecco del Caravaggio and Nicolas Tournier as well as Valentin de Boulogne.

[9] The art historian Francesca Curti identified in 2019 the Master of the Incredulity of St. Thomas with the painter Bartolomeo Mendozzi, who was active in Rome between the 1620 and the 1640s.