Jacobus Jacobszoon de Wet

He was a Dutch artist like his father. He was an artist for King Jacob II from 1685 to 1688 at Holyrood House Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland, and at Glamis Castle.

He came to the Cape with the Dutch East Company on the ship, 'Nichtevecht' via Portsmuiden, 19 April 1693 to Scotland and arrived in Cape Town on 19 August 1693. He was promoted to Cellar Master. He became a burgher and lived near the Liesbeek River.

Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet

Dutch artist; born Haarlem (1640), died Amsterdam (1697); worked in Edinburgh and copied a series of paintings depicting the Kings of Scotland (Edinburgh, Pal. Holyroodhouse, Royal Col.), as well as executing some of the decorative work in Holyroodhouse; son of painter and draughtsman Jacob Willemsz. de Wet [Wett], the elder.

Visit of Minerva to the Muses (mid-17th century), Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet (1640-1697). Rouen: Museé des Beaux Arts. Ref. Anthony Rowland-Jones (pers. comm., 2000). Minerva appears in the sky to the group of seated Muses. One of the latter has an open book, one plays a flute, one an eight-stringed harp, one (with a male companion) holds what looks like a shawm, and one with her back towards the viewer plays what appears to be lute. On the ground are more books, a tambourine and what is possibly a tenor recorder. The latter has six or seven finger-holes in a line and the beak is unclear, but its narrow bore in comparison with the wide, expanding bell-end of the shawm provides further evidence that this second wind instrument is a recorder. Notes by Anthony Rowland-Jones (pers. comm., 2000).

Jacob Willemsz word in 1644 Kommisaris van die St.Lukas Gilde in Haarlem en skilder talle skilderye wat deurgans donker en groenagtig van kleur was. Sy skilderye kan op 'n afstand aangesien word as gedoen deur Rembrandt, maar by nader ondersoek kan die verskil deeglik gesien word. (Hy was vermoedelik 'n leerling van die skilder). In 1637 skilder hy twee skilderye vir ene Van der Stel.(Vermoedelik Willem Adriaan Van der Stel wat later Goewrneur aan die Kaap sou word).

In1673 versoek Sir William Bruce, in diens van Koning Charles(Karel) II van Engeland, vir Jacobus om die paleis Holyroodhouse, in Edingburgh, Skotland te versier met skilderye. In die tydperk 1673 - 1683 verf hy verskeie skilderye van en vir koniklikes en adellikes soos blyk uit verskeie rekords

Hy doen ook vanaf 1684 'n totaal van 110 skilderye wat vandag nog te siene is en hang in die paleis van Holyroodhouse, met koning James(Jacobus)II aan bewind,