Moses chooses seventy elders (1737) by Jacob de Wit

Jacob de Wit

1694 - 1754

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jacob de Wit was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes. He was born in Amsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, and many of the buildings on the Keizersgracht still have door or ceiling paintings done by him. Since many of the families who lived in Amsterdam in those days had country villas, de Wit also painted in houses in the fashionable areas of Haarlem and the Vecht river.