Jan Victors
{{Short description|Dutch Golden Age painter (1619–1676)}}
File:Victors Ruth swearing her allegiance to Naomi.jpg swearing to Naomi, 1653]]
Jan Victors or Fictor (bapt. June 13, 1619 – December 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter mainly of history paintings of Biblical scenes, with some genre scenes. He may have been a pupil of Rembrandt. He probably died in the Dutch East Indies.
He was a conscientious member of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, and for this reason he avoided creating art which depicts Christ, angels, or nudity.{{cite book |last=Benedict |first=Philip |author-link=Philip Benedict |chapter=Calvinism as a Culture? |title=Seeing Beyond the Word|isbn=9780802838605|editor-last=Finney|editor-first=Paul Colby|year=1999 |publisher=Eerdmans |location=Grand Rapids, MI |page=37}}
Biography
Victors was born in Amsterdam. He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1622 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Though it is not certain that he worked for Rembrandt, it is clear from his Young girl at a window that he had looked carefully at Rembrandt's paintings. He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character.Hollandse Schilderijen uit Franse musea, 1971, publication Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times and took a position as ziekentrooster ({{lit|comforter of the sick}}), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676. He probably died soon after arrival in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies.[https://archive.today/20120913100040/http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=80890 RKD Recordnummer: 80890, RKD artists]
File:Jan Victors 001.jpg|The Banishment of Hagar and Ishmael, 1635 Budapest.
File:Jan Victors - Jong meisje aan het venster.jpg|Young girl at a window, 1640, Louvre.
File:Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice, Jan Victors, 1642.jpg|Abraham and Isaac before the Sacrifice, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1642.
File:Victors Esau and the mess of pottage.jpg|Esau and the Mess of Pottage, 1653.
File:Jan Victors, "Cornelis de Graeff als Isaak mit seiner Frau Catharina Hoof als Rebecca mit ihren Söhnen Pieter und Jacob als Jacob und Esau".jpg|Allegory of Cornelis de Graeff as leader of his people: Cornelis de Graeff as Isaac with his wife Catharina Hooft as Rebecca with their sons Pieter and Jacob de Graeff as Jacob and Esau (1652)
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- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140725163931/http://www.artwis.com/articles/ruth-and-naomi-of-1653-an-unpublished-painting-by-jan-victors/ Ruth and Naomi of 1653: an unpublished painting by Jan Victors]}}
- [http://www.pubhist.com/person/250/jan-victors Works and literature] at PubHist
- [https://archive.today/20130210083024/http://wwar.com/masters/v/victors-jan.html Link about Victors]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070926213321/http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=251 Getty biography of Victors]
- [https://museumandgallery.org/object-of-the-month-march-2022/ Esther Accusing Haman] by Jan Victors from the Museum & Gallery collection in Greenville, SC
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