Jan van de Venne (1590–1651)

• Was a Flemish painter of genre, religious scenes, and cabinets.
• Very little is known about Jan van de Venne's life and career.
• Some of the artist’s works bear the mark of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, he is believed to have been active mainly in Brussels. • Both Cardinal-infant Ferdinand and Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governors of the Southern Netherlands, were his patrons.
• Van de Venne is recorded as a master in the Guild of Saint Luke in Brussels in 1616.

• He is believed to have been active as a painter as well as a gilder of moldings.

• He remained active in Brussels where he died in or before 1651.
• His works are typically small-scale oil on panel compositions. 

• Van de Venne specialised in caricatures of so-called ‘low-life’ subjects, such as card-players, tooth-pullers and musicians. 
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