Jan van Huysum
1682–1749

Selected artwork
Hollyhocks and other flowers in a glass vase
c. 1718
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Other names (110)
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Biography
Jan van Huysum (or Jan van Huijsum) (15 April 1682 – 8 February 1749) is the most notable member of the Van Huysum family of artists working in Dutch Golden Age of the 17th and 18th centuries; "by common consent, Jan van Huysum has been held to be the best painter of flowers." Trained in decoration from a young age, he "gradually developed an execution of details of the utmost beauty and finish" creating "wonderful flower pieces whereon drops of water and crawling ants could be seen without a magnifying glass."
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Later influence
- Louis Fabricius Dubourgeditorial inference
Evidence
Wikidata assertion retained for review; its references, if supplied, have not been independently verified. Teaching is recorded separately and does not itself establish artistic influence.
Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Jan van Huysum. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée du Louvre8 recorded works
- Rijksmuseum6 recorded works
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)4 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art3 recorded works
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna1 recorded work
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- musée Condé — Chantilly1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Pau1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Strasbourg1 recorded work
- musée des ursulines — Mâcon1 recorded work
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art1 recorded work
Sources 12
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- National Gallery of Art
- Museum authority country review
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Louvre painter identity and WikiArt profile links
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