Jacques-Guillaume Van Blarenberghe

Jacques-Guillaume Van Blarenberghe (Lille 1691 - Lille 1742), is a painter inhabitant of Lille, wire of Hendrick Van Blarenberghe, and its successor.

Jacques-Guillaume initially worked in the workshop of his father, but, with died of this one, the corporation of painters summoned it " to produce chief of œuvre" , it is thought that they are the " four saisons" , gone back to 1717. He will know all his life a fluctuating financial position.

One knows of him a hundred and fifty works, mainly of the aristocratic landscapes, navy and festivals, country-women or. By some of his tables, one thinks that he visited Paris. Its painting is very related with the Flemish models, but lighter, more fine. The environment of the tables belongs to the French Flanders. Its tables are full with reserve, without any trace of polissonerie.

The painting of Jacques-Guillaume marks a transition between Hendrick, its father, and Louis-Nicolas, his son, and marks the passage, at the Van Blarenberghe, of a properly Flemish style to a French style.

Source

Monique Mallet-Chassagne and Irene of Castle-Thierry, " Catalog reasoned of works of Van Blarenberghe" , Paris, 2004
Jean-François Méjanès, Monique Mallet-Chassagne and Irene of Castle-Thierry, " Van Blarenberghe, of the reporters of the XVIIIeme siècle" , Paris, 2006

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