Jacob Marrel (1613/1614 – 1681)

• Was a German still life painter.
• Jacob Marrel was born in Frankenthal.
• He moved with his family in 1624 to Frankfurt.
• There he became a student of Georg Flegel in 1627.
• He never travelled abroad to study Italian painting.
• His student was Abraham Mignon.
• He established  a school of his own in flower painting in Frankfurt.
• He was active as an art dealer in Utrecht until 1669.
• He died in Frankfurt.
• The displayed painting is: Jacob Marrel, self-portrait 1661, Original,
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt.
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