Jan Baptist van der Straeten
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Jan Baptist van der Straeten[1] (c. 1671 – between 1731 and 1741) was a Flemish painter who specialized in architectural paintings depicting gallant companies amidst imaginary Renaissance and Baroque palaces and buildings.[2]
Very few details about the life of Jan Baptist van der Straeten are known. It is known that the artist was active in Antwerp from about 1685 to 1731.[2] He became in 1685–86 an apprentice of the architecture and perspective painter Jacob Balthasar Peeters and was registered as such in the records of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.[3]
Not much of his career is known. His last known dated work is dated to 1731 (Auctioned by Sotheby's on 12 February 2008, London, lot 124).[4] The date and place of his death are not known.[2]
