Jan Griffier

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'Noah’s Ark’ (4 m by 4m), painted in 1700 by Jan Griffier, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, England.
'Noah’s Ark’ (4 m by 4m), painted in 1700 by Jan Griffier, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, England.

Jan Griffier (Amsterdam, ca 1645; — London 1718) was a Dutch painter who was active in England, where he was admitted to the London Company of Painter-Stainers in 1677. He had produced earlier views of Rhineland landscapes, and returned to Amsterdam for a decade after ca 1695, but was otherwise engaged in England. Griffier's work as a draughtsman reflects his training by Roelant Roghman; as an etcher, he is remembered for a series of plates of birds after Francis Barlow; his mezzotints reproduce portraits after Sir Peter Lely and Sir Godfrey Kneller. His city views, invaluable topographical evidence, suggest that his travels in England were extensive. Much of what is known of him has been transmitted in Horace Walpole,[1] working from George Vertue's notebooks.

Griffier's son Robert Griffier (1688 — ca 1750) and grandson Jan Griffier the Younger (working 1738 — 1773) continued the family landscape tradition.

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  1. ^ Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England.

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