Jan Siberechts

Jan Siberechts (* 1627 in Antwerp, † 1703 in London) was a Flemish landscape painter.

Life

Siberechts was the son of a sculptor of the same name. It was 1648 - 1649 Member of the Guild of St. Luke of his hometown and made in the subsequent period a name in Flanders. 1670 he went to London, where he was successful in 1703 and died.

In 2011, the curator of an exhibition of Dutch drawings in Hamburg discovered after consultation with the RKD, the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorisches Documentatie that a 86.5 x 51.7 cm wide nature study from the Hamburg Kunsthalle, a preliminary study for a painting Siberechts from the year 1772 is.