Jan van Kessel (1641, Amsterdam – 1680, Amsterdam) was a

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draftsman and landscape painter who made many cityscapes of Amsterdam. His work is often confused with the works of contemporary painters with the same name.

Biography

According to Houbraken he was born in Amsterdam in 1648 and made clever farm scenes that he first drew from life before making his oil paintings.Jan van Kessel Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Houbraken went on to mention that he was best known for his winter scenes and died in 1698. Houbraken couldn't discover whether he was related to the Jan van Kessel of Antwerp, who was mentioned in Cornelis de Bie's book

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. According to the RKD he was the son of the framemaker Thomas Jacobsz van Kessel, and the pupil of the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael in Amsterdam.Jan van Kessel (1641-1680)
in the RKD He is known for cityscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes and architectural works. Many of his works are similar to those of van Ruisdael and have been taken as his, sometimes after faked signatures were added. Slive, Seymour, ''Dutch Painting, 1600–1800'', p. 205, Yale UP, 1995,

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