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Cobaert [Cob; Copé; Coppe], Jacob Cornelisz.
(b c. 1535; d Rome, bur 1 June 1615). Flemish sculptor active in Italy. According to Baglione he trained with Guglielmo della Porta, under whose supervision he made a number of reliefs in wax and clay, which served as models for goldsmiths in Rome. His ivory carvings were also regularly used for this purpose. Cobaert’s production consists almost exclusively of small relief sculptures, usually made to decorate basins, ewers or platters. In most cases the objects were showpieces; for example an ivory ewer and basin in the Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden, decorated with elegantly designed scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Another similar work is a magnificent ewer (820x770 mm) in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, at the centre of which is a relief of the story of Romulus and Remus. Cobaert’s only statue—a marble St Matthew (Rome, Santa Trinità de’ Pellegrini) commissioned in 1587—remained unfinished.
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