• Was a Flemish painter, copyist, art dealer and art collector.
• De Roore was born in Antwerp in 1686 as the son of Erik de Roore, a dealer in paintings, and Anna Maria van der Haegen.
• He started his training as a painter with Jan Sebastiaen Loybos in 1699.
• He was able to start his study of painting again through the intervention of the leading Antwerp painter Abraham Genoels.
• On 7 December 1705 he won the first prize for life drawing of the Antwerp Academy.
• On 17 March 1706 he joined the workshop of Gaspar Jacob van Opstal the Younger.
• In 1707 he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
• He married Joanna Catharina van der Cammen on 14 February 1712.
• De Roore received commissions for paintings and decorations in the Antwerp City Hall from around 1715.
• After the death of his wife in Antwerp on 15 March 1722, de Roore sold all his property in Antwerp and settled in Amsterdam. • Subsequently, he moved to Rotterdam and finally to The Hague where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke.
• De Roore restored and expanded old master paintings.
• De Roore died on 17 July 1747 in The Hague leaving a substantial art collection, which was subsequently auctioned off.
