page_title: François Xavier Joseph Jacquin
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: François Xavier Joseph Jacquin / Life
context_page_description: François Xavier Joseph Jacquin or Frans Jaquin was a Flemish painter and draughtsman known for his portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He was in demand as a portrait painter of religious dignitaries, the nobility and the bourgeoisie. As a still life painter he created game pieces and trompe l'oeil still lifes of game birds.
context_section_description: François Xavier Joseph Jacquin was born in Brussels. He commenced his art studies at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1768 and later moved to Antwerp where he trained in the workshop of Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, a painter of landscapes and cattle. Here he also befriended the landscape painter Balthasar Paul Ommeganck.  He moved to Leuven in 1776 where he became a student of Laurent Geedts, a still life painter.
  He married Anna Maria Simons of Leuven in 1777.  The couple had 14 children of whom only two survived into adulthood.
  He initially devoted himself to still lifes and then from 1780 onwards he became in demand as a portrait painter.   After gaining a commission to paint Simon Wouters the prelate of the Park Abbey in Heverlee near Leuven, he was able to obtain many further commissions from religious dignitaries including the archbishop of Mechelen Franckenberg and of professors of Leuven University.  These portrait commissions kept him particularly busy.
  He painted a portrait of the Austrian Emperor Francis II for the city hall of Leuven in 1792. This work was  engraved by Antoine Cardon and displayed in the city hall of Leuven where it was burnt on 21 January 1795 by citizens of Leuven.  He became the appointed portraitist of the notables and bourgeois of Leuven but also recruited his clientele in Hainaut, Brabant and The Netherlands.  After the invasion of the Southern Netherlands by the French in 1794, Jacquin's commission work dried up and he gave up painting to trade in wine and cloth.
  Jacquin was together with Josse-Pieter Geedts, Frans Berges, Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Pieter Goyers, Martin van Dorne and Antoon Clevenbergh one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Leuven in 1800.  After the founding of the Academy, Jaquin's artistic career took off again and he re-established himself as a portrait painter to the world of merchants and the middle classes of Leuven.
  One of his pupils at the Academy was Henri van der Haert.  He died on 1 November 1826 in Leuven.
caption: Portrait of Mrs. De Virieu of Zaltbommel
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