Jan van Troyen (1610 – 1670) was a Flemish engraver and etcher. He is mainly known for the work he did for

David Teniers the Younger David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile arti ...

on the illustrations for the ''

Theatrum Pictorium ''Theatrum Pictorium'', or ''Theatre of Painting'', is a short-hand name of a book published in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a catalog of 243 Italian paintings in the Ar ...

'', an publication which gave an overview of the paintings in the collection of the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm. He accompanied Teniers to Vienna after the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm returned there in 1658.Jan van Troyen
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He was there presumably to make engravings after paintings in the Archduke's cabinet that were to be published in the 1673 version. He is last recorded in Brussels in 1670 and 1671. File:David Teniers the Younger - modello for Theatrum Pictorium 1673.jpg, Modello for the frontispiece for the ''Theatrum Pictorium'', by Teniers File:David Teniers, Frontispiz des Theatrum Pictorium (1660).jpg, Frontispiece engraved by Jan van TroyenLarger version signed
in the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

File:Francesco Bassano - Boy with Flute GG 8.jpg, Example of a painting by

Francesco Bassano the Younger Francesco Bassano the Younger (26 January 1549 – 4 July 1592), also called Francesco Giambattista da Ponte or Francesco da Ponte the Younger, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born at Bassano del Grappa near Venice, th ...

in the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

File:Teniers - Boy with a Flute GG 9708.jpg, Example of a modello by David Teniers the Younger after Bassano, also in the Kunsthistorisches Museum File:Arolsen Klebeband 13 035.jpg, Example of an engraving from the first, 1660, edition of the Theatrum Pictorium by Jan van Troyen after the Bassano painting Most of his works are engravings of Italian paintings in the Archduke's cabinet. He was possibly related to the painter of Italianate landscapes

Rombout van Troyen Rombout van Troyen (c 1605, Amsterdam – 1655, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he painted Italianate landscapes of ruined palaces and grottos, though he had never been to Italy.

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1610 births 1670 deaths Flemish engravers {{printmaker-stub