Jan van Neck | |
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Born | Jan van Neck 1634 |
Died | June 6, 1714 | (aged 79)
Nationality | Dutch |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Baroque |
Jan van Neck (1634–1714), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
He was born in Naarden and became a painter, draftsman, engraver, and interior decorator. [1] According to Houbraken his father was a doctor who apprenticed him to Jacob Adriaensz Backer to learn draftsmanship. [2] He painted historical allegories, portraits, and scenes of naked women bathing. Houbraken liked especially an altarpiece in the Wallonian Catholic church of Amsterdam by his hand. Houbraken wrote that he was a friendly man with many entertaining stories, and he consulted him as a source for his books while he was bedridden. He mentions also that Neck was a great friend of Dirck Ferreris, whose collection of drawings and papierkunst or paper-art (probably paper-cuts) came into his possession on his death. [2]