Jacques Fouquier (1590/91–1659) 

• Was a Flemish landscape painter.
• He was believed to have been born in Antwerp.
• Art-historian Joachim von Sandrart stated that Fouquier was the scion of a good family from western Flanders.
• In 1614 he was registered as a master painter under the name Jacques Foucque in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke.

• Some art historians have proposed a traineeship first under Joos de Momper, and later under Jan Brueghel the Elder.

• He was possibly registered in the Brussels' Guild of Saint Luke in 1616 as a pupil of Arnould van Laken.

• In the period between 1616 and 1619 he worked in Heidelberg at the court of the art loving Frederick V, the Elector Palatine.

• He was in charge of the decorative programme for the new English building of Heidelberg Castle.

• From 1619 to 1621 he was back in Brussels, where Philippe de Champaigne was one of his pupils. 

• At the latest by 1621 he had established himself in Paris, where he became court painter to King Louis XIII.

• Fouquier travelled to Toulon in 1626, Aix-en-Provence in 1627, Toulon and Marseille in 1629 and Toulon and Aix-en-Provence in 1632 and Toulon in 1633.

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