Jan Victors or Fictor (bapt. June 13, 1619 – December 1679) was a Dutch Golden Age painter mainly of records paintings of Biblical scenes, with some genre scenes. He may have been a pupil of Rembrandt. He probably died in the Dutch East Indies.
He was a conscientious supporter of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, and for this excuse he avoided creating art which depicts Christ, angels, or nudity.
Victors was born in Amsterdam. He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1622 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Though it is not certain that he worked for Rembrandt, it is Definite from his Young girl at a window that he had looked on purpose at Rembrandt’s paintings. He was on your own twenty similar to he painted this scene, and the look of expectation upon the girl’s face shows a remarkable study of character. He seems to have without help painting competently before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad become old and took a tilt as ziekentrooster (“comforter of the sick”), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676. He probably died soon after dawn in Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies.
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