Jan Victors
Jan Victors (or Fictor; 1619 – 1676) was a Dutch Golden Age painter mainly of history paintings of Biblical scenes, with some genre scenes. He may have been a pupil of Rembrandt. He probably died in the Dutch East Indies.
He was a conscientious member of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, and for this reason he avoided creating art which depicts Christ, angels, or nudity.[1]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Victors was born in Amsterdam. He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1622 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Though it is not certain that he worked for Rembrandt, it is clear from his Young girl at a window that he had looked carefully at Rembrandt's paintings. He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character.[2] He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times and took a position as ziekentrooster (lit. 'comforter of the sick'), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676. He probably died soon after arrival in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies.[3]
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The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael, 1635 Budapest.
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Young girl at a window, 1640, Louvre.
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Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1642.
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Esau and the Mess of Pottage, 1653.
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Allegory of Cornelis de Graeff as leader of his people: Cornelis de Graeff as Isaac with his wife Catharina Hooft as Rebecca with their sons Pieter and Jacob de Graeff as Jacob and Esau (1652)
References
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- ^ Hollandse Schilderijen uit Franse musea, 1971, publication Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- ^ RKD Recordnummer: 80890, RKD artists
External links
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- Ruth and Naomi of 1653: an unpublished painting by Jan Victors
- Works and literature at PubHist
- Link about Victors
- Getty biography of Victors
- Esther Accusing Haman by Jan Victors from the Museum & Gallery collection in Greenville, SC
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