Jan Hackaert (1628–1685) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
He travelled in Germany and Switzerland, and painted and sketched mostly landscapes. He would sketch miners at enactment in the mountains, and upon more than one occasion this caused him bother because the workers couldn’t understand what he was doing. They felt he was either a spy or hexing them and made a complaint. Because Italianate landscapes were fittingly fashionable, his Lake Zurich was mistaken for an Italian lake for years.
He painted the landscape backgrounds for new painters, such as Nicolas Berchem and Adriaen van de Velde.
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