Jan van Neck

Jan van Neck
Jan van Neck
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Born	Jan van Neck; 1634; Naarden
Died	June 6, 1714 (aged 79); Amsterdam
Nationality	Netherlands
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Jan van Neck (1634–1714), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography

He was born in Naarden and became a painter, draftsman, engraver, and interior decorator.[1] According to Houbraken his father was a doctor who apprenticed him to Jacob Adriaensz Backer to learn draftsmanship.[2] He painted historical allegories, portraits, and scenes of naked women bathing. Houbraken liked especially an altarpiece in the Wallonian Catholic church of Amsterdam by his hand. Houbraken wrote that he was a friendly man with many entertaining stories, and he consulted him as a source for his books while he was bedridden. He mentions also that Neck was a great friend of Dirck Ferreris, whose collection of drawings and papierkunst or paper-art (probably paper-cuts) came into his possession on his death.[2]

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References

Jan van Neck in RKD
(in Dutch) Johan van Neck biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

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[1] Jan van Neck in RKD

[Houbraken-2] (in Dutch) Johan van Neck biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature