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Jan de Herdt
Southern Netherlands, 1620–1680
Jan de Herdt was a Southern Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum. Jan de Herdt was born in Antwerp.
Jan de Herdt, in Italy also called Il fiammingo (Antwerp, c. 1620 – between 1686 and 1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. After training in Antwerp, he spent his entire career abroad, first in Northern Italy and later in Vienna and other cities in central Europe. He was mainly a portrait artist but also painted genre scenes as well as religious, mythological and allegorical subjects.
He was part of a network of Flemish and Dutch painters working for the court, aristocracy and ecclesiastical institutions of central Europe.
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