Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter lively in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. A versatile player he practised in many genres including studies of insects, floral yet lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions, scenes in the same way as animals and genre scenes. A scion of the Brueghel associates many of his subjects took inspiration of the perform of his grandfather Jan Brueghel the Elder as without difficulty as from the earlier generation of Flemish painters such as Daniel Seghers, Joris Hoefnagel and Frans Snyders. Van Kessel’s works were severely prized by his contemporaries and were collected by proficient artisans, wealthy merchants, nobles and foreign luminaries throughout Europe.
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