# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-van-kessel-the-elder
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:11:44.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-van-kessel-the-elder"
name: "Jan van Kessel the Elder"
slug: "jan-van-kessel-the-elder"
description: "Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid-17th century. A versatile artist, he practiced in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions, scenes with animals and genre scenes. A scion of the Brueghel family many of his subjects took inspiration of the work of his grandfather Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as from the earlier generation of Flemish painters such as Daniel Seghers, Joris Hoefnagel and Frans Snyders. Van Kessel's works were highly prized by his contemporaries and were collected by skilled artisans, wealthy merchants, nobles and foreign luminaries throughout Europe."
tagline: "Flemish painter (1626–1679)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jan_van_Kessel_-_gulden_cabinet.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1626-04-05"
deathDate: "1679-04-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.08
  momentum:             0.1607445008460237
  historical:           16.643236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2343262"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جان فان كيسيل الاكبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ян ван Кесель Старэйшы"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_star%C5%A1%C3%AD"
    title: "Jan van Kessel starší"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_der_%C3%84ltere"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CF%86%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%9A%CE%AD%CF%83%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB_%CE%BF_%CF%80%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B2%CF%8D%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82"
    title: "Γιαν φαν Κέσσελ ο πρεσβύτερος"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_the_Elder"
    title: "Jan van Kessel the Elder"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_el_Viejo"
    title: "Jan van Kessel el Viejo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_Zaharra"
    title: "Jan van Kessel Zaharra"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel"
    title: "Jan van Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9C_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%91"
    title: "יאן ואן קאסל האב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_il_Vecchio"
    title: "Jan van Kessel il Vecchio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ヤン・ファン・ケッセル (父)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_(1626-1679)"
    title: "Jan van Kessel (1626-1679)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_van_Kessel_den_eldre"
    title: "Johan van Kessel den eldre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_(starszy)"
    title: "Jan van Kessel (starszy)"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel"
    title: "Jan van Kessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Кессель, Ян ван Старший"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Kessel_den_%C3%A4ldre"
    title: "Jan van Kessel den äldre"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Ян ван Кессель Старший"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515553"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump