Jan Erasmus Quellinus (1634–1715),

• Was a Flemish painter and draughtsman.

• His work displays the classicizing influences of his father Erasmus Quellinus the Younger and Paolo Veronese.
• He was born in Antwerp.
• He was trained by his father from 1649.
• Jan Erasmus travelled to Italy where he initially resided in Rome from 1657 to 1659.
• He became a member of the Bentvueghels, an association of mainly Dutch and Flemish artists working in Rome.
• Jan Erasmus was given the bent name "Seederboom", which means 'cedar tree'.
• Upon his return to Antwerp in 1660 he joined the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as a 'wijnmeester', i.e. the son of a member of the Guild.
• The next year he married Cornelia Teniers, the daughter of painter David Teniers the Younger.
• Around 1680 Quellinus worked in Vienna for the Habsburg court as a court painter to Emperor Leopold I.
• He returned to Antwerp where between the years 1685 and 1712 he worked on many commissions for churches in Antwerp and throughout Flanders.
• He had many pupils including Anthoni Schoonjans, Simon de Marets, Jan Carel van Eyck, Guiliam Draeger, Christoffel Franciscus Ponsel, Jacobus de Play.

• From 1712 the artist resided and worked in Mechelen where he died on 11 March 1715.

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