Jacob de Decker
Dutch Golden Age painter
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Giacomo, or Jacob de Decker (1640 – 1680), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Biography
Decker was born in 1640 in Haarlem.
According to Houbraken he travelled to Rome and joined the bentvueghels with the bentname Gulden Regen.[1] He signed Abraham Genoels bentbrief on 3 January 1675.[1][2]
According to the RKD he may have been the son of the Haarlem landscape painter Cornelis Gerritsz Decker.[2] He is known in Haarlem for his illustrations for Petrus Scriverius.[2][3]
He died at Rome in 1680.