Jan van Essen
Flemish Baroque landscape painter
Jan van Essen, was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter. According to Houbraken, who called him by his bentname "Zantruiter", he travelled with the painter Pieter Hofman ("Janitzer") in Turkey. He was known as a landscape painter. According to the RKD he was a pupil in 1659 of the painter Sebastiaen de Bruyn. He joined the bentvueghels with the nickname "Santruyter", a name shared by Jan Oly. He is possibly the same person as "Giovanni Vanes, pittore fiammingo" registered as having been in a fight in Rome on 30 October 1669.
Artworks by this artist
- Vier fazanten 1864 - 1936
- Landschap met weg 1864 - 1936
- Koningsvaren in een tuin te Scherpenzeel 1918
- Lioness Resting 1885
- Landschap met groep jagers na de jacht op de Leusderhei 1864 - 1936
- Het lossen van karren bij een vaart 1864 - 1936
- Dorpsgezicht met vrouw met kruiwagen 1864 - 1936
- Huis op de Leliegracht, geflankeerd door de bruggen over de Prinsengracht en de Keizersgracht 1864 - 1936
- Portret van Treesje Muller 1878
- Pelicans in Artis Zoo 1880
- Gezicht langs een weg met hoge bermen en hekjes 1864 - 1936