Jan Baptist Van Der Straeten
Jan Baptist van der Straeten (c. 1671 – between 1731 and 1741) was a Flemish painter who specialized in architectural paintings depicting gallant companies amidst imaginary Renaissance and Baroque palaces and buildings.Jan Baptist van der Straeten
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History

Life

Very few details about the life of Jan Baptist van der Straeten are known. It is known that the artist was active in Antwerp from about 1685 to 1731. He became in 1685–86 an apprentice of the architecture and perspective painter Jacob Balthasar Peeters and was registered as such in the records of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
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Jan Baptist Van Der Straeten - Capriccio Of A Palace Exterior With Figures Conversing In The Foreground
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