Background
January Baptist Herregouts was likely born in Roermond in or after 1646 as the son of painter David Herregouts from Mechelen who had moved to Roermond in 1646.
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January Herregouts
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January Baptit’s mother was Cecile Geniets, a daughter from a family of butchers in Mechelen. January Baptist had three brothers who were painters:
Hendrik Herregouts (Mechelen, 1633 – Antwerp, 1704) who had a peripatetic career as a painter including stints in Antwerp and Bruges. Willem Herregouts who emigrated to Amiens in France where he was known i.a. as Guillaume Herregosse or Guillaume Hergosse.
Maximilian Herregouts about whom currently nothing much is known other than two works, one entitled Kitchen, in which a woman is busy baking pancakes (1674) and a second entitled Eliezer and Rebecca at the well.
January Baptist likely first trained under his father and may have made a study tour to Italy. He became a master in the Bruges Guild of Saint Luke in 1684.
He subsequently filled various leadership positions in the guild. In 1717 he was one of the four artists who contributed funds to the creation of a drawing academy in Bruges.
January Baptist became a successful history and portrait painter.
The couple had two children: Marie-Anne Herregouts (1685-1749) and January Baptist Herregouts (1688-1717). He died in Bruges where he was buried in the Street James Church.
Membership
He became a member of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke in 1677.
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Netherlands