Jan ten Compe: 7 interesting facts

Jan ten Compe (1713, Amsterdam – 1761, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands.

According to his biographer Jan van Gool, he was a aficionado of Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Berckheyde. He works were in request by wealthy patrons such as Mayor Rendorp of Amsterdam and Mr. De Groot of the Hague, where Van Gool proverb his paintings of prominent buildings and landmarks of Rotterdam, Delft, the Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, and Amsterdam.

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According to the RKD he was the pupil of Dirck Dalens III and the assistant professor of Geerit Toorenburgh. He was stage name Jan ten Kompe or I.T. Conyn.

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