Artist

Jan Miense Molenaer

Portrait of Jan Miense Molenaer
Portrait of Jan Miense Molenaer

Dutch Republic

Jan Miense Molenaer is a Dutch Republic Dutch Golden Age painter. 40 works are cataloged here, principally at Mauritshuis, most of them oil paintings.

Jan Miense Molenaer (1610 – buried 19 September 1668) was a Dutch Golden Age genre painter whose style was a precursor to Jan Steen's work during Dutch Golden Age painting. He shared a studio with his wife, Judith Leyster, also a genre painter, as well as a portraitist and painter of still-life. Both Molenaer and Leyster may have been pupils of Frans Hals.

Works by Jan Miense Molenaer

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