(b Antwerp, 20 July 1686; d The Hague, 17 July 1747). Flemish painter and dealer. He was a fairly mediocre Antwerp painter and can be numbered among those tempted by the scholarly and mythological subjects typical of the period. He studied first under Abraham Genoels II and in 1699 under Lucas Schoor (c. 1666–?1710). In 1703 he worked in Brussels with Kaspar van Optsal ( fl 1632–after 1661). De Roore returned to Antwerp, where he became a master in 1707. The cathedral of St Michel in Brussels contains one of his paintings, the Sick Invoking the Miracle of the Host, donated by Philippe Evrard Vander Noot, Bishop of Ghent and Count of Everberg. De Roore visited several Dutch cities and was accepted as a master by the painters’ guild in The Hague in 1722. He was best known for his painted ceilings and his tapestry cartoons and was one of three artists, the others being P. J. Kerrickx and Jan van Helmont (1650–1740), noted for their imitations and copies of the great Flemish masters such as Rubens, van Dyck and David Teniers II. De Roore and the Dutch painter Gerard Hoet formed an association to deal in works of art and negotiated an agreement for van Dyck’s St Martin Dividing his Cloak (c. 1618–21).

• Roore, Jacques (Ignace) de
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