Jacob Janssen b. 9 December 1779

Also known as Jacob Jansen, Jacob Janssens
  • Artist (Painter)
Landscape, still-life and portrait painter, was born 1779 at Einlage, Prussia. He was trained by Signor Piesio Ancora, a member of the School of Naples, and recorded his extensive travels in his diary. He painted up until a year before his death in 1856. After one brief period of notoriety, he seems to have been forgotten.

Citations

  • Janssen, Jacob, 'Diary, 1807-40’, Manuscript B985/CY918, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Synopsis and translation by John Fletcher, Department of Germanic Studies, Sydney University, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1976), 'The Respectable Sydney Merchant: A.B. Spark of Tempe’, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Abbott, G. and Little, G. (eds.).

  • Bruce, C. (1989), 'Jacob Janssen’, Art and Australia, (Autumn).

  • Kerr, J. and Broadbent, J. (1980), 'Gothick Taste in the Colony of New South Wales’, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

  • McDonald, P.R. and Pearce, B. (1988), 'The Artist and the Patron’, Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

  • Watkins, J. (1988), 'Stories of Australian Art’, Commonwealth Institute catalogue, London, England, UK.

  • (1984), Australian Financial Review. 06-29.

  • (1847), Heads of the People, 08-28.

  • (1841), Sydney Gazette, 12-30.

  • 'Album of w/c sketches of India and Manila’, B1335, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2 vols).

  • 'Death Certificate’, DOC 29/5, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870