Jan Asselijn is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jan Asselijn as painter from the Northern Netherlands (1610–1652).
Jan Asselijn was born at Dieppe in 1610. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter and draftsperson.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are Italianate landscape, The Threatened Swan and Cavalry attack at sunset. A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jan Asselijn died in 1652, aged 42. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Italianate landscape
- Notable work: The Threatened Swan
- Notable work: Cavalry attack at sunset
- Movement: Baroque
