Jan van Neck (1634–1714), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
He was born in Naarden and became a painter, draftsman, engraver, and interior decorator. According to Houbraken his dad was a doctor who apprenticed him to Jacob Adriaensz Backer to learn draftsmanship. He painted historical allegories, portraits, and scenes of naked women bathing. Houbraken liked especially an altarpiece in the Wallonian Catholic church of Amsterdam by his hand. Houbraken wrote that he was a friendly man past many entertaining stories, and he consulted him as a source for his books though he was bedridden. He mentions as well as that Neck was a great buddy of Dirck Ferreris, whose heap of drawings and papierkunst or paper-art (probably paper-cuts) came into his possession on his death.
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