Jacob Ochtervelt (1634 in Rotterdam – 1682 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Ochtervelt’s contemporaries included Vermeer, Ter Borch, and De Hooch. Despite his prolific work, he was ignored by the three major 17th century art bibliographers, Andre Felibien, Jochaim Sandrart, and R. de Piles. He was first mentioned by Arnold Houbraken, a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters, who wrote that “Jakob Ugtervelt was a pupil of N. Berchem during the thesame period as “Pieter de Hooge” (Hooch), who was famed for his interior conversation pieces in the same way as lords and ladies, but without much perspective in his backgrounds, which takes a sure amount of mathematical keenness and skill.” The showing off this comment was written leaves the reader questioning whether Houbraken thought Hooch or Ochtervelt painted slope poorly. According to Abraham Jacob van der Aa’s difficult biography of him, his style was more in keeping next Gerard Terburg or Gabriel Metzu, and in adjunct to sharing Berchem’s studio subsequently Hooch, he had been a pupil of Frans van Mieris the Elder.
According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was lithe in Haarlem where he was a student of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem and innovative he moved back to Rotterdam (1655–1672) where he was a pupil of Ludolf de Jongh (who afterward taught Pieter de Hooch). After the 1672 bump year he moved to Amsterdam and lived near Mint tower. He was buried in Nieuwezijds Kapel.
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