Jan van Huysum

Jan van Huysum was a male painter from the Dutch Republic, born in Amsterdam on 15 April 1682. He specialized in landscape painting and still life genres. His father was Justus van Huysum, and he had a sibling named Jacob van Huysum. He also had a child named Francina Margaretha van Huysum. Van Huysum worked in Amsterdam, where he was both born and died on 8 February 1749. He spoke, wrote, or signed in Dutch.

His works are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is described by sources including The Great Theatre of Dutch Painters, Svensk uppslagsbok, Lives of Flemish, German, and Dutch painters, and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.