Jan Looten (1617-18 in Amsterdam – c. 1681 in United KingdomJan Looten
at RKD) was a Dutch landscape painter. He is first recorded in Amsterdam at his wedding with Catelijntje Harmans in September 1643, as a 25-year old painter from Amsterdam, son of Laurens Jansz Loten. In or after 1664 he moved to London and later to York.

Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no mariti ...

reportedly visited his studio in 1669 and was "unimpressed" with his work and was recommended to Simon Verelst, who he saw more favourably. He taught the painter and draftsman

Jan Griffier Jan Griffier ( 1652 – 1718) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was active in England, where he was admitted to the London Company of Painter-Stainers in 1677. Biography Griffier was born in Amsterdam and learned to paint landscapes and to e ...

. Four landscapes attributed to Jan Looten are in the Royal Collection, two of which were painted in ''c.'' 1675 for King James II of England.O. Millar, ''The Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian pictures in the Collection of her Majesty the Queen'', London, 1969, I, pp.155-156, nos. 413-416

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1618 births 1681 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch landscape painters Dutch expatriates in England {{Netherlands-painter-stub