Jacob Reiners

Jacob (Jakob) Reiners (28 February 1828 – 17, 19 or 21 September 1907[1] was a German portrait, genre and landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

After his school days, he studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1847 to 1850 and became a master pupil of Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn.

The Reinersstraße in Kempen, on the other hand, rather refers to the painter C(ornelius) A. Reiners, who received his confirmation in Lobberich in 1731; a relationship could not be proven.

The focus of his artistic work was portrait painting, especially in the area of the Rhenish and Westphalian nobility.

For example, he was largely responsible for the restoration of the altarpiece in the Lambertuskapelle [de] in Eupen, the copy of the painting Assumption of Mary by Peter Paul Rubens made by an unknown artist.