Jan Looten (1617 or 1618 in

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– c. 1681 in the

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Jan Looten
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) 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.

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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. Four landscapes attributed to Jan Looten are in the Royal Collection, two of which were painted in ''c.'' 1675 for

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.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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1610s births 1681 deaths Painters from Amsterdam Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Dutch landscape painters Expatriates from the Dutch Republic Expatriates in the Kingdom of England {{Netherlands-painter-stub