Jacques Backereel

After training in Antwerp he worked for some time in Rome.

[2][5] His teacher was Tobias Verhaecht, a landscape painter who had been the first teacher of Rubens[6][7] Jacques became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1618.

[8] Jacques Backereel is documented in Rome in the period from 1626 to 1638.

[2] Jacques Backereel was the teacher of Hendrick Backereel (1645), the landscape painter Abraham Genoels, Jan Baptist Huybrecht (1658) and the engraver Franciscus van der Steen II (1658).

Numerous landscapes by a Backereel were mentioned in Antwerp inventories from 1649 onwards and later in the papers of the Forchondt art dealers of Antwerp.