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Jan van Essen (c.1640 in Antwerp – 1684 in Naples), was a Flemish Baroque landscape painter.

Biography

According to Houbraken, who called him by his bentname "Zantruiter", he travelled with the painter Pieter Hofman ("Janitzer") in Turkey.[1] He was known as a landscape painter.[1]

According to the RKD he was a pupil in 1659 of the painter Sebastiaen de Bruyn.[2] He joined the bentvueghels with the nickname "Santruyter", a name shared by Jan Oly.[2] He is possibly the same person as "Giovanni Vanes, pittore fiammingo" registered as having been in a fight in Rome on 30 October 1669.[2]


References

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

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