Jan van Kessel (1641 – 1680)

• Was a Dutch Golden Age draftsman and landscape painter.
• According to Houbraken he was born in Amsterdam in 1648.
• Houbraken went on to mention that he was best known for his winter scenes.
• Houbraken couldn't discover whether he was related to the Jan van Kessel of Antwerp.
• According to the RKD he was the son of the framemaker Thomas Jacobsz van Kessel, and the pupil of the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael in Amsterdam.
• He is known for cityscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes and architectural works.
• Many of his works are similar to those of van Ruisdael and have been taken as his, sometimes after faked signatures were added.
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