Jacob van Werden

Jacob van Werden
DiedBefore 20 August 1669
NationalityFlemish
SpouseMarie Granvelle
Engineering career
DisciplineDraughtsman, cartography, military engineering and archery
InstitutionsSpanish army

Jacob van Werden or Jacques van Weerden (fl, 1643 – before 20 August 1669), was a Flemish draughtsman, cartographer, military engineer and archer who was active in the Habsburg Netherlands.[1] His drawings were used as designs for prints executed by various printmakers. He worked on maps, topographical views, historical scenes, portraits and book illustrations.[2][3] He had a career as a military engineer and a member of the guard of the Spanish King.[1] He advised on various military engineering projects and was an engineer of the army of the Spanish army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria at the siege of Landrecies in 1648.[4]

  1. ^ a b Philippe Bragard, Dictionnaire biographique des ingénieurs des fortifications. Pays-Bas espagnols, principauté de Liège, Franche-Comté, 1504-1713, Namur, Les Amis de la Citadelle, 2011, 221-222 (in French)
  2. ^ Jacob van Werden at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
  3. ^ Véronique Van de Kerckhof (ed.), Le peintre et l'arpenteur: images de Bruxelles et de l'ancien duché de Brabant, Musées royaux des beaux-arts de Belgique Renaissance Du Livre, 2000, p. 123-124 (in French)
  4. ^ Michel Hennin, Georges Victor Antoine Gratet Duplessis, Inventaire de la collection d'estampes relatives à l'histoire de France léguée en 1863 ..., Henri Meny, Paris, 1877 (in French)