Jan Van Bijlert
Jan Van Bijlert,engraving by Pieter de Bailliu after a self-portrait 1649.
Birth name	Jan Van Bijlert
Born	1597 Utrecht
Died	1671 (aged 73–74) Utrecht
Nationality	Netherlands
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Jan Hermansz van Bijlert (Utrecht, 1597 or 1598 – Utrecht, November 1671) was a Dutch portrait painter in the style of Caravaggio.

[edit] Biography

Jan van Bijlert, The concert

Jan van Bijlert was the son of a a stained glass worker, and became a student of Abraham Bloemaert. He travelled in France and Italy on a Grand Tour, and in Rome in 1621 he became a member of the painters' circle known as the Bentvueghels, but in 1624 he was back in Utrecht, where he was appointed regent of the Sint-Jobsgasthuis.

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• (Dutch) Joan Bylert biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature