Jacob van Walscapelle (1644, Dordrecht – 1727, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter.
According to the RKD he was baptized Jacobus Cruydenier, and became a pupil of Cornelis Kick during the years 1664–1667. He painted fruit and flower nevertheless lifes similar to Jan Davidsz de Heem, and many of his works have been ashamed with those of Kick. He influenced the painter Michel Nicolas Micheux.
According to Houbraken, his university Kick had a garden outdoor the St Anthony’s gate of Amsterdam where he painted flowers from nature once his student Jakob van Walskapel. When the increase of the city in 1657–1663 claimed the home the garden was on, Kick moved his garden other eastwards to the new polder called Diemermeer. When Kick got it into his head to disturb to Loenen in 1667 however, Walskapel left his advance and moved encourage to Amsterdam, where he took going on another profession and was yet living at the epoch Hourbaken was writing (he was probably Houbraken’s source).
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