Johannes Baptista van Acker

Johannes Baptista van Acker
Portrait of Johannes Van Acker, by Charles Picqué, collection Groeningemuseum
Born	Johannes Baptista van Acker ca. 1794 Bruges, Belgium
Died	ca. 1863 Bruges, Belgium
Occupation	Painter

A lady wearing blue decollete

Johannes Baptista van Acker (1794–1863) was a Flemish painter.

Van Acker was born at Bruges. He studied under Ducq, and soon became popular as a miniature-painter. In 1834 he went to Paris, and was there acknowledged as one of the best artists of his class. After his return to Bruges, he was called by King Leopold to Brussels, and painted numerous miniatures of the royal family and personages of the court. After a journey to England, Van Acker returned to Bruges, where he died, in 1863.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Acker, Johannes Baptista van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.