Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 – 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes.

Jacob de Wit was born inAmsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on theKeizersgracht in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or ceiling paintings done by him. Since many of the families who lived in Amsterdam in those days had country villas, de Wit also painted in houses in the fashionable areas ofHaarlem and theVecht river.

According to theRKD he was the pupil ofAlbert van Spiers in Amsterdam andJacob van Hal in Antwerp where he became a member of theGuild of St. Luke in 1714.^[1] While in Antwerp, he made a series of watercolor sketches of the Rubens ceilings in theCarolus Borromeuskerk in Antwerp. After the church was struck by lightning in 1718 these became a historical document, and his pupilJan Punt later engraved his sketches and published them in 1751.^[2][3]His pupils were Jan de Groot (painter from The Hague),Dionys van Nijmegen, Jan Punt,Pieter Tanjé, and the brothersFrans andJacob Xavery.Jacob de Wit died in Amsterdam in 1754.^[1]Tako Hajo Jelgersma was his follower.^[1]

• Baptism of Christ in the Jordan[1](1716) – Chalk and pen drawing
• Adoration of the Shepherds[2] (1726) – Oil on canvas
• Holy Family and Trinity, also : The Return from Egypt[3] (1726) – Oil on canvas
• Allegory of Transience[4] (1733) – Oil on canvas
• Moses Elects Seventy Elders (1737) – Oil on canvas

• One of his paintings for a door inHeemstede now hangs in Uppsala, Sweden, in theLinnaeus museum.
• A set of paintings of the four seasons depicting cherubs painted in a three-dimensional monochrome style now hangs atHinton Ampner house inHampshire.
• Another of his three-dimensional monochrome style cherub paintings hangs inKingston Lacy house inDorset.
• Old City Hall (The Hague)
• Museum Willet-Holthuysen

• Jacob de Wit onArtnet

• 1695 births
• 1754 deaths
• 18th-century Dutch painters
• 18th-century Dutch male artists
• Dutch male painters
• Dutch Christians
• Painters from Amsterdam
• Painters from Antwerp

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