Jan Daemen Cool (ca. 1589-1660)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

• According to the RKD he was probably a pupil of the painter Daemen Cool.

• He married in Delft in 1613 to Agniesje Jaspersdr.

• In 1614, he was admitted into the Guild of St. Luke at Delft; but by 1618 he had returned to Rotterdam.

• In 1623 he married Lysbeth, the widow of the painter Lowys Percelles.

• He is known as a follower of Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt.

• He influenced the painters Adam and Isaac Colonia and Ludolf de Jongh. 

• In 1652 the governors of the " Old Men's Home" at Rotterdam agreed to receive him into the institution on condition of his paying a sum of 1225 florins and painting a picture representing them assembled together.

• Several of his works hang in the Historisch Museum Rotterdam.

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