Jan Victors

Training under Rembrandt is recorded. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Works named in the authority record are Joseph interpreting the dreams of the baker and the butler, The greengrocer at the sign of 'De Buyscool' and The swine butcher. Work by Jan Victors is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Canada and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Victors was born in Amsterdam. He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1622 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Though it is not certain that he worked for Rembrandt, it is clear from his Young girl at a window that he had looked carefully at Rembrandt's paintings. He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character. He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times and took a position as ziekentrooster (comforter of the sick), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676. He probably died soon after arrival in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies. • Illustration — The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael, 1635 Budapest. • Illustration — Young girl at a window, 1640, Louvre. • Illustration — Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1642. • Illustration — Esau and the Mess of Pottage, 1653. • Illustration — Allegory of Cornelis de Graeff as leader of his people: Cornelis de Graeff as Isaac with his wife Catharina Hooft as Rebecca with their sons Pieter and Jacob de Graeff as Jacob and Esau (1652)