Giacomo van Lint
Giacomo van Lint or Jacob van Lint (8 February 1723 in Rome - 1 August 1780 in Rome) was an Italian landscape and vedute painter of Flemish descent active in Rome. He was the son of Hendrik Frans van Lint, one of the leading landscape painters in Rome in the first half of the 18th century. Like his father, van Lint supplied a clientele of local patrons as well as European travelers on their Grand Tour with views of the ancient and modern monuments of Rome as well as views of the Roman Campagna. Life Giacomo van Lint was born on 8 February 1723 in Rome where he was baptized in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo. He was the son of Hendrik Frans van Lint and his wife Ludovica Margarete Tassel. Giacomo was the eldest of the couple's 10 children of whom only six survived. His father was a Flemish landscape painter from Antwerp who himself was a son of Pieter van Lint, a painter of history paintings, genre scenes and portraits in the Flemish Baroque style. Hendrik Frans van Lint had settled before 1700 in Rome where he had become a successful vedute painter. Giacomo learned the