Jan Victors (1619 – 1679)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
• He is know for history paintings of Biblical scenes, with some genre scenes.
• He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1722 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn.
• Though it is not certain that he worked for Rembrandt, it is clear from his Young girl at a window that he had looked carefully at Rembrandt's paintings.
• He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character.
• He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times. 
• He probably died soon after arrival in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: The Angel Taking Leave of Tobit and His Family, 1649.
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