Jan Ekels the Younger
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A Writer Trimming his Pen, 1784, now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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A woman seated in a kitchen peeling apples, ca. 1787
Jan Ekels the Younger (1759 Amsterdam - 1793), was a Dutch painter of genre pieces and an imitator of the old masters, especially of J. Molenaer. Two pictures by him, one representing A young Man drawing, and the other A Peasant lighting a Pipe, are in the Städel Gallery at Frankfurt.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ekels, Jan, the Younger". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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- 18th-century Dutch painters
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