Jacob van Schuppen

Training under Pieter van Schuppen and Nicolas de Largillière is recorded. Adam Friedrich Oeser is recorded as having studied under Jacob van Schuppen. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, history and genre. Employment is recorded with Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Eugene, Prince of Savoy. Work by Jacob van Schuppen is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Belvedere, Nationalmuseum, Städel Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

• Name — Jacob van Schuppen • Born — 26 January 1670 • Birthplace — Fontainebleau • Place of death — Vienna • Field — Painting

Jacob van Schuppen was born in Fontainebleau, France, as the son of Elisabeth de Mesmaker and the Flemish painter-engraver Pieter van Schuppen, who was originally from Antwerp. He worked in the Netherlands before moving to Vienna. He was taught to paint by his father and his uncle Nicolas de Largillière. In 1719, he was registered in Lunéville, but he moved in the same year to Vienna, where he became court painter. In 1725, he was appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, when it was refounded by Emperor Charles VI as the k.k. Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst (Imperial and Royal Court Academy of painters, sculptors and architecture). In 1730, he taught Adam Friedrich Oeser and he was an influence on Daniel Gran. Christian Hilfgott Brand (father of Johann Christian Brand) and Carl Heinrich Brandt were among his pupils.

• Illustration — Portrait of Eugene of Savoy, 1718