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Jan van Essen

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Jan van Essen (c.1640 in Antwerp – 1684 in Naples), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who called him by his bentname "Zantruiter", he travelled with the painter Pieter Hofman ("Janitzer") in Turkey.[1] He was known as a landscape painter.[1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil in 1659 of the painter Sebastiaen de Bruyn.[2] He joined the bentvueghels with the nickname "Santruyter", a name shared by Jan Oly.[2] He is possibly the same person as "Giovanni Vanes, pittore fiammingo" registered as having been in a fight in Rome on 30 October 1669.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b (in Dutch) Zantruiter mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. ^ a b c Jan van Essen in the RKD
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