Biography

Flemish painter and art collector. He trained as a painter with Jan Sebastiaen Loybos (active 1653-c. 1703) in 1699, with his uncle Karel van der Haegen as a goldsmith in 1701, and in 1701-02 with the Brussels tapestry designer Lodewijk van Schoor who had established himself in Antwerp in 1696. In 1705 he won the first prize for life drawing of the Antwerp Academy. In 1706 he joined the workshop of Kasper Jacob van Opstal (1654-1717), and in 1707 he became a free master in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.

De Roore worked initially as a copyist of the works of the leading Antwerp masters. His first signed work was a religious composition painted for the St. James' Church in Antwerp in 1709. He received commissions for paintings and decorations in the Antwerp City Hall from around 1715. These works gained him a reputation and commissions from patrons in the Dutch Republic, where he worked in Amsterdam in 1720. He settled in Amsterdam in 1722. Subsequently he moved to Rotterdam and finally to The Hague where he became a member of the local Guild of Saint Luke. In the Dutch Republic the artist worked on multiple decorative paintings for houses in the cities of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague.