Jan Wijnants

(1632–1684) Dutch painter (1632–1684)

Jan Wijnants (1632–1684) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan Wijnants belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Jan Wijnants was born in Haarlem and died in Amsterdam. Jan Wijnants worked in Amsterdam. The students included Adriaen van de Velde.

The best-known works include ‘Landscape at the Edge of Woods’, ‘Road in a Dune Landscape’, and ‘Landscape with two Hunters’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 126 works by Jan Wijnants with free images. The dated works span the years 1643–1835. Works by Jan Wijnants are held by several collections, among them National Gallery, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, and collection Adriaan van der Hoop. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Anthonie van Borssom, Benjamin von Block, Adriaen van der Kabel, Johann Filip Lemke, and Antonio Zanchi.