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Daret, Jacques
(b Tournai, c. 1400–05; d c. 1468). South Netherlandish painter. The son of a Tournai sculptor, by 1418 he was living in the household of ROBERT CAMPIN, ‘ouvrant de son mestier’, and earning his keep. Not until 1428 was he formally registered as Campin’s apprentice; after completing his four-year apprenticeship he became a master of the Tournai guild in 1432. In 1433 he himself took an apprentice, his younger half-brother Daniel Daret, who became a master in 1441 and who in 1449 was made painter and Varlet de Chambre to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. In 1436 Jacques took a second apprentice, who became a master illuminator in 1438. During this period, Jacques divided his time between Tournai and Arras, where Jean du Clercq, Abbot of St Vaast, was his devoted patron. Daret seems later to have settled at Arras. His work for the Abbot and the abbey is well documented: he coloured carved altarpieces, tombs and crosses, painted wing panels for altarpieces and portraits of all the abbots and designed a tapestry and a brass candlestick. In 1454 he was the best paid of the artists summoned to Lille to provide decorations for Philip the Good’s ‘Feast of the Pheasant’ and was accompanied by four assistants. By 1461 he was back at Tournai, where he coloured a statue for the Belfry and where in 1464 he took two apprentices. He may have left Tournai in 1466 and is last recorded in 1468, when he was at Bruges with three assistants to work on the decorations for the marriage festivities of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and Margaret of York. He and Vrancke van der Stockt were the most highly paid of all the many artists present.
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