Jan Janz Slop, or Jan Slob (1643 in
Edam – 1727), was a
Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and art an ...
painter.
According to Houbraken he was a glasspainter who lived to be the last of a breed. He had been a pupil of
Jozef Oostfries and was still active at 75 when Houbraken was writing in 1712.
[Jan Janz Slop Biography]
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
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He married Heiltje Sieuwerts 31 December 1661 in
Hoorn
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with ''attestatie'' from Edam. Heiltje was the sister of
Catharina Oostfries
Catharina Oostfries, or Trijntje Sieuwerts (1636–1708) was a Dutch Golden Age glass painter.
Biography
Oostfries was born in Nieuwkoop. According to Houbraken she kept up her drawing and glass painting into her seventies. , and when Catharina's husband
Claes van der Meulen died, he was named as guardian over their children in Catharina's will.
Claes Pietersz van der Meulen
in genealogy website
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slop, Jan Janz
1643 births
1727 deaths
Dutch Golden Age painters
Dutch male painters
People from Edam-Volendam