Jan Asselijn (c.1610 – 1652)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• Asselijn was born at Dieppe from a French Huguenot family as Jean Asselin.
• He received instruction from Esaias van de Velde, and distinguished himself particularly in landscape and animal painting.
• Nicolaes de Helt Stockade and Asselijn married two sisters in Lyons in 1645, both daughters of Houwaart Koorman of Antwerp.
• Their marriages brought both Asselijn and Helt-Stockade back to the Netherlands after their travels.
• He seems to have befriended Rembrandt.
• Frederick de Moucheron, another Italianate landscape painter, was his pupil.
• The Threatened Swan, which portrays a swan aggressively defending its nest, became a symbol of Dutch national resistance.
• Although it is unknown if Asselijn intended it to be so.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Asselyn, painter, 1647.
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