Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht (1613, Dordrecht – 1691, Dordrecht), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Biography According to Houbraken, who mentioned him in passing with a list of painters from Dordrecht, he first learned from Cornelis Bisschop, and later became a pupil of Jan de Baen, who taught him portrait painting. Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht Biography, De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature.
He travelled to London and couldn't compete with Godfrey Kneller as a portrait painter, but Kneller hired him to paint clothing and less important parts of Kneller's paintings.Jacob van de Roer, historici.nl. Accessed 7 January 2023. Roer van Dordrecht returned to Dordrecht and later died in the Gasthuis there.
According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Godfrey Kneller and is only known as a draughtsman of decorations on title pages.Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, RKD. Accessed 7 January 2023.
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