Jan van Assen, who was born at Amsterdam in 1635, was a painter of history, portraits, and landscape, in the Italian manner; he studied particularly the works of Tempesta. He died at his birthplace in 1695.
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References
edit- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Assen, Jan van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.