Jan Ekels the Elder

Beverwijk: view on Peperstraat from Koningstraat with the Wijker Toren

Jan Ekels the Elder (1724 Amsterdam -1781, Amsterdam), was a scholar of Dirk Dalens, the younger. He painted views of cities in the manner of Jan ten Compe. His pictures are generally of a small size, and are highly finished, with a good effect of light and shade.

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  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ekels, Jan, the Elder". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.


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