Jacob van Doort (-1629)

• Was a painter of Flemish or Dutch extraction.
• Active in portrait miniatures from 1606 to his death in 1629.
• He did much of his work for the courts of Denmark and Sweden, in particular the court of Christian IV of Denmark.

• He was possibly the son of Peter van der Doort of Antwerp and the brother of Abraham van Doordt.

• For most of his career he worked in Northern Europe.
• He died in Stockholm. 

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