Background
He was born in Antwerp, but after the siege of Antwerp, his family moved to Delft in 1589, where he later joined the Guild of Saint Luke there in 1613.
He was born in Antwerp, but after the siege of Antwerp, his family moved to Delft in 1589, where he later joined the Guild of Saint Luke there in 1613.
His pupil was Anthonie Palamedes in Delft. The later art historian Arnold Houbraken, who mentioned his data was sketchy at best, confused this painter with his probable later descendents Hans III Jordaens (1590-1643) and the later Rome traveller Hans IV Jordaens (1616-1680). Houbraken mentions that he (Hans IV) was born in Delft, and travelled to Rome and received the nickname Pollepel (spoon) from the Bentvueghels, for his ability to spoon up figures on canvas.
The widow of the lawyer Nicolaas Muys van Holy (1653/54-1717) owned a painting by him (Hans III) of the Pharaoh"s army crossing the red sea and drowning with horses and wagons.
Most such paintings are now attributed to Hans III Jordaens (d1643), of Antwerp. Though this has been dismissed by later historians, there is evidence of an engraver L. Jordaens who was active around 1660 and who could have been the son of Hans IV. He worked with the mapmaker Zacharias Roman on landscapes of Zeeland.
He died in Delft, or Voorburg.
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According to Karel van Mander he had been a pupil of Martin Van Cleve who first became a member of the Antwerp guild in 1579.