Painter, draftsman and tapestry designer, Jacques d’Arthois is the best-known and most prolific artist of the Brussels landscapist painters of the seventeenth century, also known as Painters of the Sonian Forest, the other major figures of this school being Lodewijk de Vadder (1605–1655), Lucas Achtschellinck (1626–1699) and Ignatius Van der Stock (1636–1668)
