Jacques Vaillant (painter)

Jacques Vaillant (1643 in Amsterdam – 1691 in Berlin), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his older brother Wallerant Vaillant.

[1] He travelled to Rome and joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Leeurik.

[1] He became court painter for Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg after his envoy invited him to Berlin.

The Great Elector was so pleased with his work that he sent him to the Emperor Leopold I to paint his portrait.

Jacques Vaillant portrait shown in lower left next to his brother Wallerant Vaillant under a portrait of their Amsterdam contemporary, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout , in Arnold Houbraken's Schouburg, Volume II, 1719.
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg with the Battle of Fehrbellin .