Peter Jacob Horemans

Peter Jacob Horemans or Peter Jakob Horemans (October 26, 1700 – August 3, 1776) was a Flemish painter of genre scenes, portraits, conversation pieces, still lives and city views. After training in Antwerp he was active in Germany where he became court painter. He was a versatile artist who worked in many genres and for a variety of aristocratic, religious and private patrons.

Horemans was born in Antwerp as the son of a notary. He was listed from 1716 until 1724 in the records (liggeren} of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as the pupil of his older brother Jan Josef Horemans, a genre painter.

In 1725 he moved to Munich. He became in 1727 court painter to prince-elector of Bavaria Charles Albrecht, the Emperor Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor from 1740 to 1745. He made decorations in the prince-elector's Nymphenburg Palace and the hunting lodge Amalienburg.

His nephew François Charles (Franz Karl) Horemans worked after 1725 in his workshop in Munich. On 4 June 1730 he married Justina Magdalena Resch, daughter of the table decker of the prince-elector. His artist friends the court sculptors Guillielmus de Grof (or Willem de Grof) and Gilles Fareslitz attended the wedding. In 1759 he became court painter to Maximilian III Joseph, the subsequent Elector of Bavaria. In 1765 he qualified as a master in Munich.

The Nuremberg painter Magnus Prasch was his pupil.

In his final years his eyesight deteriorated to the point that he could no longer paint. Horemans died in Munich.

Peter Jacob Horemans was a versatile artist who practised in many genres: genre scenes, conversation pieces, portraits, hunting scenes and city views.

His works provided an interesting record of everyday life in Munich during the Rococo period.