Judocus de Vos (1661–1734) was a
Flemishweaver, son of the weaver Marcus de Vos. he was apprenticed to his father and after his death he took over and expanded the weaving mill. He produced many
tapestries, many commissioned to depict events from the
War of the Spanish Succession.
1705 leader of the largest workshop in Brussels, having 12 weaving machines with about 35 weavers
1707–1717 tapestries for the
Blenheim Palace of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
1712–1724 eight tapestries with Telemachos stories for Adam Franciscus, Duke of Schwarzenberg (5 pieces saved at the castle
Hluboká Castle in Bohemia, 1 piece in Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; signed J.D.VOS and Brussels' coat-of-arms between initials B/B.
1712–1721 twelve tapestries with The History of the Conquest of Tunis for the royal castle of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI in Vienna; now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna .
1718–1724 six tapestries Months of the Year - Martial Arts for the Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong; 1 piece in Victoria and Albert Museum in London, 1 with Naval battle at the New castle in Oberschleissheim (nearby Muenchen).
Bibliography
Jeri Bapisola, Threads of History: The Tapestries of Blenheim Palace. (Lightmoor Press, 2005).
Koenraad Brossens, Brussels Tapestry Producer Judocus de Vos (1661/62-1734). New Data and Design Attributions. Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. IX, no. 2 (2002).
Alan Wace, The Marlborough Tapestries at Blenheim Palace. (London, 1968).
Jarmila BLAŽKOVÁ, Deux tentures des mois à Prague, inː Artes textiles, Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis van de tapijt-, borduur- en textielkunst, X, Gent, (1981), p. 203-220