Jan Franse Verzijl

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Regents of the Gouda orphanage with self-portrait upper left (behind his brother-in-law), 1644 Regenten van het weeshuis van Gouda door Jan Verzijl.jpg
Regents of the Gouda orphanage with self-portrait upper left (behind his brother-in-law), 1644

Jan Franse Verzijl (1599, Gouda 1647, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.

Biography

Houbraken listed him with the Gouda painters Jan Damesz de Veth, Jan en Pieter Donker as noteworthy artists that he intended to include in his book of biographies. [1] His source was Beschrijving der stad Gouda by Ignatius Walvis. [1]

According to the RKD he was a follower of Caravaggio and is known for works in schuilkerkken. [2] In 1644 he painted the regents of the orphanage of Gouda with a self-portrait of himself standing behind his brother-in-law Hart on the left. [3] After his death his widow founded the Harten hofje in Gouda that was torn down in 1965. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 (in Dutch) Jan Franse Verzijl mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
  2. Jan Franse Verzijl in the RKD
  3. 1 2 Dutch Wikipedia