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[[Image:Blenheim Wynendael 1708.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Battle of Wynendael]]'' after design by [[Lambert de Hondt (II)]], [[Blenheim Palace]]]]
[[Image:Judocus de Vos, Philipp De Hondt - The March; The Art of War.jpg|thumb|''The March'', after design by [[Philipp De Hondt]]]]
[[Image:Judocusdevos teniers.jpg|thumb|Woven in the workshop of Judocus de Vos about 1710 after design by [[David Teniers the Younger]]; probably made for the upper class market in [[Europe]] and [[United Kingdom|Britain]]]]
'''Judocus de Vos''' (1661–1734) was a [[Flemish people|Flemish]] [[Weaving|weaver]], 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]]. 

==Main tapestries==
*1699–1700, 29 tapestries with ''New Testament'' for the [[St John's Co-Cathedral]] in La Valetta ([[Malta]])
*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.
*1710–1715 six tapestries ''Months'' for the [[Lobkowicz Palace]] in Prague, since 1927 in the [[Czernin Palace]] in Prague.
*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

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