Jan Franse Verzijl (1599, Gouda – 1647, Gouda), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
Houbraken listed him once the Gouda painters Jan Damesz de Veth, Jan en Pieter Donker as noteworthy artists that he expected to tally in his book of biographies. His source was Beschrijving der stad Gouda by Ignatius Walvis.
According to the RKD he was a devotee of Caravaggio and is known for works in schuilkerkken. In 1644 he painted the regents of the orphanage of Gouda like a self-portrait of himself standing astern his brother-in-law Hart upon the left. After his death his widow founded the Harten hofje in Gouda that was torn alongside in 1965.
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