Jacob Herreyns the Elder

In the Guild year 1695-1696 Jan-Baptist Jacops and Jan Ritsaert Musketieer were registered as his pupils.

Through this marriage he became a brother in law of the battle painter Gonzales Franciscus Casteels who married his wife's sister.

Herreyns and his wife had 10 children: Daniel (II) (*25 September 1678), Maria-Catharina (*7 May 1681), Isabella-Clara (* 30 July 1683), Anna-Theresia (*24 November 1685), Jacob (II) (*25 August 1687), Susanna-Maria (*11 December 1689), Joanna (*5 August 1692), Jan-Baptist (*28 November 1695), Francis-Gonzales (* 15 October 1699) and Anna-Elisabeth (*12 October 1701).

[2] In 1709, Herreyns and Abraham Genoels were commissioned to fit out and decorate the former tapestry as a full-fledged theatre.

[5] He was buried on 1 January 1731 in the Saint Andrew Church, in front of the altar of the mint masters of Brabant, of whom he had been a lifelong member.