Jack (playing card) warrior) for the Jack of Hearts; Hector (mythological hero of the Iliad) for the jack of diamonds; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the jack of clubs. In some southern Italian decks, there are androgynous knaves that are sometimes referred to as maids. In the Sicilian Tarot deck, the knaves are unambiguously female and are also known as maids. As this deck also includes queens, it is the only traditional set to survive into modern times with two ranks of female face cards. This pack may have been influenced by the obsolete Portuguese deck which also had female knaves. The
Lancelot Volders Victor Honoré Janssens was a pupil of Lancelot Volders for eight years starting from 1676. Volders also trained lesser known figures such as Frans Thierlincx (1663), Johannes de Reyff (1677) and Hendrick de Vos (1677). Lancelot Volders was a specialist portrait painter but also created history paintings and genre scenes. The last works of Lancelot Volders are dated by Rudi Ekkart to 1713. He created group and individual portraits, mainly of the members of the Stadtholder court in Leeuwarden. He also painted in Leeuwarden portraits of the local aristocracy. He worked in a style close to that of Gonzales Coques