Jan van Essen

Jan van Essen (c.1640, Antwerp – 1684, Naples), 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...