Biography

Flemish painter, also called Jean de Namur. He was perhaps a pupil of Lambert Lombard. Documented as a painter for the city of Namur (in Dutch: Namen) by 1562, he worked in Namur until after 1578. In 1590 he was court painter and keeper of the vineyards to Alexander Farnese, prince of Parma in Brussels. He worked in Mechelen between 1603 and 1624. The biography and oeuvre of this artist have long been confused with his son, Jan Baptist II (Jean Baptiste the Younger).