Jan Baptiste Govaerts, active, ca. (1701-1746)

• Was a Flemish painter.
• After training and working in Antwerp he worked as a court painter in Mainz.
• He is first recorded at the Guild of Saint Luke of Antwerp as a pupil of Alexander van Bredael in the guild year 1713/1714.

• Jan-Johan Baptist Govaerts was active in Antwerp until 1740.

• In 1740 the artist left Antwerp to move to Mainz where he was court painter to the Archbishop-Elector Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich.

• In Mainz he painted kitchen scenes and game pieces.

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