JACCOBER, JACOB BER called, born at Blieskastel, Bavaria, March 6, 1786, died in Paris, July 17, 1863. Fruit and flower painter, pupil of Gerard van Spaendonck; became naturalized in France. Employed at Sévres from 1823 till 1825, and of high repute in his branch of art. Medals: 2d class, 1831 and 1834; 1st class, 1839; L. of Honour, 1843. Works: Fruits and Flowers (1839), Luxembourg Museum; do. in Salons of 1822-55.—Bellier, i. 809; Nouvelle biogr. générale, Paris, 1855.
JACK IN OFFICE, Sir Edwin Landseer,
South Kensington Museum; canvas, H. 1 ft.
8 in. × 2 ft. 2 in. An itinerant
dealer in dog-meat
has left his barrow in an
alley in charge of a satiated
mongrel, who, seated
upon the top, receives unmoved
the courtier-like attentions
of his hungry and
less fortunate fellow-creatures.
Somewhat similar
in treatment to Alexander
and Diogenes. Royal
Academy, 1833.—Blackburn,
Pictures at Kensington;
Stephens, 69.
JACKSON, JOHN, born
at Lastingham, Yorkshire,
May 31, 1778, died in London,
June 1, 1831. Son
of a tailor, but enabled by friends to study
in schools of Royal Academy; elected A.R.A.
in 1815, and R.A. in 1817. Became famous
as a portrait painter, both in water-colours
and in oils, and had many distinguished sitters.
In 1819 he visited Rome, where he
painted Canova, and was elected a member
of the Academy of St. Luke. One of his
best works is a portrait of Flaxman, painted
for and in possession of Lord Dover. Portraits
of Miss Stephens, Sir John Soane,
and Rev. William Holwell Carr, National
Gallery; portrait of himself, National Portrait
Gallery; do., at Dover House, Whitehall,
and at Castle Howard.—Redgrave;
Cat. Nat. Gal.; Ch. Blanc, École anglaise;
Sandby, i. 359.
JACOB, JULIUS, born at Berlin, April
25, 1811, died there, Oct. 20, 1882. History
and portrait painter, pupil in Berlin of Wach,
of Düsseldorf Academy, and in Paris of Delaroche.
Travelled in Europe, North Africa,
and Asia Minor; spent eleven years in England,
and in 1865 went to Vienna, where,
after painting twenty-six portraits of distinguished
persons within a year, he returned
to Berlin. Medals in Paris, Lyons,
Rouen; member of many artistic societies.
Works: Scenes from History of St. Louis;
Artist Life; Portraits of Princes Metternich,
Schwarzenberg, Liechtenstein, Kinsky, Windischgraetz,
Lobkowitz, Field-Marshal Hess,
Count Apponyi; Male Head (1845), National
Gallery, Berlin.—Müller, 277; Jordan
(1885), ii. 106; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 41;
Leixner, Mod. K., i. 56; ii. 100, 119; Rosenberg,
Berl. Malersch., 54.
JACOB VAN AMSTERDAM. See Cornelisz,
Jacob.
JACOB AND THE ANGEL (Gen. xxxii.),
Eugene Delacroix, St. Sulpice, Paris; mural
painting in chapel of Saintes-Anges. The
struggle of Jacob with the angel. One of
Delacroix's best works.—Larousse, ix. 862.
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Blessing of Jacob, Rembrandt, Cassel Gallery.
