said to have been bought in Madrid in 1808 for Lord Overstone, and sold to Marquis of Westminster for two Claudes, a Poussin, and £1,200 in money.—Buchanan, Memoirs, ii. 221; Curtis, 120.
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Jacob and Rachel, Giordano, Dresden Gallery.
JACOB AND RACHEL (Gen. xxix.), Giordano, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 6 ft. 8 in. × 7 ft. 6 in. Jacob, gone into Mesopotamia to take a wife from the daughters of Laban, meets Rachel with her flocks near a well, and hastens to remove the stone from the well's mouth. Engraved by Joseph Wagner.—Réveil, vii. 435.
JACOBELLO DEL FIORE. See Fiore.
JACOBI, BERNARDINO. See Buttinone.
JACOBS, JACOBUS (ALBERTUS MICHAEL),
born in Antwerp, May 19, 1812,
died there, Dec. 13, 1879. Marine painter,
pupil of Antwerp Academy under Van Bree
and Wappers; studied especially Claude
Lorrain, Joseph Vernet, and Willem van de
Velde; visited the Mediterranean Coast,
Greece, Egypt, Cyprus, Asia Minor, Russia,
and Scandinavia, and in 1843 became professor
at the Antwerp Academy. Order of
Leopold, 1849; Officer, 1864. Several medals.
Works: Outlook from Cape Colonna—Greece
(1846), Weimar Museum; Grecian
Archipelago (1848), National Gallery, Berlin;
Shipwreck of Floridian (1849), Sunrise
in the Archipelago (1852), Harbour of Constantinople,
New Pinakothek, Munich; Arabs
resting in the Desert (1849); Golden
Horn (1852); Waterfall of the Glommen in
Norway (1853), Brussels Museum; Ruins of
Karnak (1857); Sogne Fjord (1857), Caravan
in Flight, Ruins of Philæ, Breeze on
Finland Coast, Bay of Lepanto (1864); Cataracts
of the Nile, Canal Grande in Venice,
Entrance to Bergen Harbour (1867).—Immerzeel,
ii. 75; Kunst-Chronik, xv. 211.
JACOBS, PAUL EMIL, born in Gotha,
Aug. 18, 1802, died there, Jan. 6, 1866.
History painter, pupil from 1818 of the
Munich Academy under Langer, father and
son; visited Upper Italy in 1824, and in
1825-28 studied in Rome. Settled in Frankfort,
painted chiefly portraits, and in 1830
went to St. Petersburg, where he became
member of the Academy. Returned to
Gotha in 1834; he painted in Hanover for
the king in 1835-38, visited Greece and
Rome, and settled in Gotha in 1840; was
in Rome again in 1844-45, and in 1853-57.
Member of the Berlin Academy, and court-*painter
and aulic counsellor to Duke of Coburg-Gotha.
Works: Mercury and Argus
(before 1825); Raising of Lazarus (1825);
Venus Asleep (1826), Heads of Roman Women
(2), Gotha Museum; Prometheus (1829);
Portrait of General Diebitsch-Sabalkanski,
Ascension, Last Supper (1830-34). Frescos:
Venus rising from Sea, Triumph of
Bacchus, Argonauts (1835-38), Royal Palace,
Hanover; Crucifixion (1840), St. Augustin's,
Gotha; Scheherazade, Wilhelma, Stuttgart;
replicas in Manchester, Königsberg
Museum (1840), and Gotha; Presenting of
the Silk Cord (1844), Villa Rosenstein, near
Stuttgart; Samson and Delilah (1845); Judith
and Holofernes (1850); Oriental Slave
Market, Rape of Proserpine, Munich Gallery;
Luther at Worms, City Hall, Stralsund;
Christ, Madonna, Catholic Church,
Gotha; Ecce Homo (1853), Museum, ib.;
Descent from the Cross, Susanna (1856);
Germania Mourning, Germania Victorious,
Day and Night, War and Peace.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xiii. 615; Kunst-Chronik, i. 3.
