page_title: Jan Baptist Herregouts
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Jan Baptist Herregouts / Life
context_page_description: Jan Baptist Herregouts was a Flemish painter, etcher, printmaker and brewer. He is known for his portraits, history subjects and allegorical scenes.
context_section_description: Jan Baptist Herregouts was likely born in Roermond (or possibly in Dendermonde) between 1635 and 1645 as the son of David Herregouts and Cecilia Genits or Geniets.  His father was a painter from Mechelen who had moved to Roermond in 1646.  Here David Herregouts had built a successful career as a painter thanks to the support of the local Catholic Church. Jan Baptist’s mother was a daughter from a family of butchers in Mechelen.
  Jan Baptist had three brothers who were painters: Hendrik Herregouts (Mechelen, 1633 – Antwerp, 1704) who had a peripatetic career as a painter including stays in Antwerp and Bruges, Willem Herregouts who emigrated to Amiens in France where he was known i.a. as Guillaume Herregosse or Guillaume Hergosse and Maximilian Herregouts about whom currently nothing much is known other than two works, one entitled Kitchen, in which a woman is busy baking pancakes (1674) and a second entitled Eliezer and Rebecca at the well.
  Jan Baptist likely first trained under his father and may have made a study tour to Italy.  He then worked for several years in Antwerp probably in the workshop of his brother Hendrik.  He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke between 18 September 1667 and 17 September 1677.  He remained a member until 1682 when he moved to Bruges.  Here he possibly assisted his brother Hendrik with some of the commissions he was completing in that city.  He became a master in the Bruges Guild of Saint Luke in 1684. He subsequently filled various leadership positions in the guild. In 1717 he was one of the four artists who contributed funds to the creation of a drawing academy in Bruges.
  Jan Baptist became a successful history and portrait painter.  He married Anna-Pieternelle Timmermans. The couple had two children: Marie-Anne Herregouts (1685-1749) and Jan Baptist Herregouts (1688-1717).  Jan Baptist or his wife likely operated a beer brewery in Bruges.
  He died in Bruges where he was buried in the St James Church.
caption: Allegory of abundance
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