Jan Ekels the Younger (1759

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- 1793), was a Dutch painter and draftsman of genre pieces and an imitator of the old masters, especially of J. Molenaer,

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and

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. Jan Hermannus was baptized in a hidden or

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in Kalverstraat. He was trained by his father

Jan Ekels the Elder Jan Ekels the Elder (1725–1780) was a Dutch painter of veduta's. His pictures are generally of a small size, and are highly finished, with a good effect of light and shade. He was born near Oude Kerk, Amsterdam at Bierkaai. The family was ...

living at Herengracht. From 1776 to 1778 he studied in Paris, where he was introduced to

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and

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. In 1781 he won the first prize of the drawing academy and as a gift he received a medal and a book on painting and drawing by

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. In 1783 he and two friends travelled along the Rhine and stayed in Düsseldorf. In the same year he was admitted to the

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. He never married and lived at Nieuwe Doelenstraat in an expensive hotel after his mother died; Jan was her only heir. The artist died at the age of 34 probably as a result of a stroke. He was buried nearby at

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. His drawings contains several

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s. Two pictures by him, one representing ''A young Man drawing,'' and the other ''A Peasant lighting a Pipe,'' are in the

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Gallery at

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Jan Ekels the Younger
at PubHist {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekels, Jan, the Younger 1759 births 1793 deaths Dutch genre painters Painters from Amsterdam 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters