{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Jacob Levecq | image = Levecq zelfportret.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Jacques L'Evesque | birth_date = 1634 | birth_place = Dordrecht | death_date = {{death year and age|1675|1634}} | death_place = Dordrecht | field = Painting | movement = Baroque }} '''Jacob Levecq''' ({{circa}}1634–1675), né '''Jacques L'Evesque''', who signed his name '''J. Leveck''' or '''J. L.''', and was also referred to as '''Jakob Lavecq''', '''Jacobus Levecq''', '''Jacobus L'Evesque''', and '''Jacobus Lavecq''', was a Dutch Golden Age painter trained by Rembrandt.<ref name=rkd/>

==Biography== According to Houbraken, who was his pupil during the last nine months of his life, Levecq had been trained by Rembrandt. He inherited a good sum of money when his parents died that he used to take care of himself, his two unmarried sisters and a blind half-brother. Houbraken could not recall much of his painting style, since Levecq had been mostly sick while he was living in Houbraken's house and no longer painted actively.<ref name=houbraken>{{in lang|nl}}<!--Middle Dutch--> [https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0255.htm Jacob Lavecq biography] in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature</ref>

In his younger years Levecq travelled to Paris and Sedan where he painted portraits and on his return to Dordrecht became a portrait painter in the manner of Jan de Baen. When he died, Houbraken inherited a third of his prints, but regretted the fact that as a young man with little experience in such matters, he only chose prints by Lucas van Leyden and Albrecht Dürer, and had left the French prints for others, and so was very glad that he had received one anyway by Charles le Brun.<ref name=houbraken/>

According to the RKD, he was Rembrandt's pupil from 1653 to 1655 and travelled south to France in 1660.<ref name=rkd>{{cite web| title=Jacobus Leveck| url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/49719|website= RKD}}</ref>

==References== {{Commons category|Jacobus Leveck}} {{reflist}}

==External links== * [https://www.pubhist.com/person/119/jacobus-leveck Works and literature] at PubHist

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