Jan van Aken
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan van Aken (1614, Amsterdam – buried 25 March 1661, Amsterdam [1]) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
Contents |
[edit] Biography
Van Aken has been frequently confused with the celebrated German painter Johann van Achen of Cologne. Not much is known of his paintings but Bartsch enumerates twenty-one of his etchings, which are touched in the manner of Herman Saftleven. They are very slight but display great mastery. Houbraken describes an etching by him from his own design, which he says is very scarce. He terms it the Travellers On Horseback. It is marked "J.V Aken, inv. et fec.". Among those mentioned are six horses after Pieter van Laer[2] or Bamboccio and six views of the Rhine after Saftleven. He was also influenced by Philips Wouwerman.[3]
[edit] See also
- Hieronymus Bosch, born Jeroen van Aken
[edit] References
- ^ entry in the RKD
- ^ Jan van Aken biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ^ Jan van Aken in the RKD
[edit] External links
- Works by Jan van Aken at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
- Works by Jan Van Aken at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
 |
This article about a Dutch painter is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
