Jan Swart van Groningen (c. 1495 in Groningen – c. 1563 in Antwerp), was a Dutch Renaissance painter.
According to Karel van Mander he was in Gouda in 1522–1523, at the thesame time that Jan van Scorel was there, who had just returned from Italy. He could paint landscape and flesh tones in the same way as Scorel, and travelled to Italy himself, spending grow old in Venice. Van Mander goes upon to citation his woodcuts of Turks on horses armed subsequently bow and arrow, as competently as a woodcut of Christ preaching a sermon in the sky of a crowd of listeners on board a ship. Adriaen Pietersz. Crabeth was his disciple who later surpassed him quite speedily in his art. This youngster Crabeth was the son of “Cripple Pieter” (Krepel Pieter).
According to the RKD he was the researcher of Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth in Gouda c. 1535, after which era he moved to Antwerp.
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