Jacobus van Looy

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jacobus (Jac) van Looy (September 12, 1855, Haarlem - February 24, 1930, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter and writer. Van Looy was the son of a carpenter, but his father lost his job when his eyesight began to fail. His mother died when he was five years old and when his father died soon afterwards, he ended up in the Haarlem municipal orphanage. He trained to become a house painter, but was able to follow drawing classes, from 1877 at the "Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten" in Amsterdam.