moved to Rotterdam and finally to The Hague where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke. In the Dutch Republic the artist worked on multiple decorative paintings for houses in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. Returning briefly to Antwerp in 1728 the artist got married with one of his models who followed him to The Hague. The marriage did not last and his young wife returned to Antwerp. Finding it difficult to find steady work, he became an art dealer and collaborated with the Dutch painter and dealer Gerard Hoet. De Roore and Gerard Hoet reportedly negotiated an agreement for the sale of van Dyck's St Martin Dividing his Cloak but were stopped by the local villagers from removing the painting from the church in Zaventem where it was located. De Roore restored and expanded old master paintings. It is known that he expanded at least five works of Melchior de Hondecoeter. In 1740 he received a large commission to decorate all walls of a room in the Amsterdam residence of Gerard Arnout Hasselaer on the Keizersgracht. For this commission de Roore produced a series of paintings based on the story of Pandora. All of de Roore's decorative work that he produced in the Netherlands has disappeared. De Roore died on 17 July 1747 in The Hague leaving a substantial art collection, which was subsequently auctioned off. Work Jacques Ignatius de Roore painted mainly historical subjects and portraits. He was best known for his decorative ceiling and wall paintings and a few altarpieces. He also produced imitations and copies of the great Flemish masters such as Rubens, van Dyck and David Teniers II. Paintings by de Roore are in the collections of the Louvre Museum (the Couple before the Altar of a Temple Dedicated to Diana), the Rijksmuseum (the Idolatry of Jeroboam) and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (The City of Antwerp pays tribute to the Austrian dynasty and Samson insulted by the Philistines). References External links Flemish Baroque painters Flemish history painters Painters from Antwerp 1686 births 1747 deaths 18th-century Flemish painters Artists from Antwerp