A Satyr

1621–1667

His workshop: fifteen pupils in the guild records

Between 1621 and 1667 the guild registered fifteen pupils with Jordaens (the best known being Jan Boeckhorst), and six more are named in court documents; his son Jacob and his cousin Arnoldus also trained with him. His fame drew foreigners: after 1642 the Polish painter Aleksander Jan Tricius became his pupil, and in 1645 Queen Christina of Sweden meant to send her protégé Georg Waldau, but the threat of war in Flanders prevented it.

1629

Daughter born: Anna Catharina Jordaens

1633–1634

Inherits his birth house, “Het Paradijs”

When his parents' estate was divided among Jacob, his brother Izaak and his sisters Anna, Magdalena and Elisabeth, he received the house where he was born, “Het Paradijs” (“Paradise”). In 1634 he bought two more houses on the Verversrui.

1635

Decorations for the entry of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand

For the Joyous Entry into Antwerp of the new governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, designed by Rubens, Jordaens painted decorative pictures after Rubens's designs and, with Cornelis de Vos, completed the triumphal Arch of Philip on the Huidenvetterstraat. The arch was temporary and has not survived.

c. 1635 – 1645

Publishes prints after his own designs

Like Rubens and van Dyck, Jordaens realised that prints spread an artist's fame and on his own initiative issued 14 engravings under privilege (cum privilegio), cut by Marinus Robyn van der Goes, Schelte a Bolswert, Paulus Pontius and other Antwerp engravers. Beneath each image stood his name as inventor and a short explanation in Latin verse.

1637–1638

Paintings for Philip IV's hunting lodge

In 1636 Rubens received a commission for a mythological series after Ovid's Metamorphoses for the Torre de la Parada near Madrid and enlisted Antwerp painters. Jordaens painted “Apollo and Pan” (1637, after a sketch by Rubens) and “Vertumnus and Pomona” (1638).