VLIET, Jan Joris van

(b. ~1610 Leiden, d. 1668 Leiden)

Jan Joris (Gillisz, Georg) van Vliet, Dutch printmaker, painter and draughtsman. He was active between 1628 and 1637 in Leiden. In 1632 he visited Antwerp and he worked also in Delft. He was a collaborator of Rembrandt in Leiden.

Van Vliet entered Rembrandt’s studio about 1630-31. No paintings are known to him, but he was important as an etcher. At least some of his etchings were apparently executed under Rembrandt’s close supervision, possibly using Rembrandt’s own drawings as models as Marcantonio Raimondi did with Raphael and as various members of Rubens’s studio did under the master’s direction. In addition to etchings after Rembrandt’s drawings and paintings, van Vliet also executed a few etchings after Jan Lievens and Joris van Schooten. He made a popular print series called “the beggars” and signed his prints “JG Vliet fec”.

Bust of a Laughing Man in a Gorget

This etching was executed after a painting by Rembrandt.

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Portrait of György Rákóczi

This print was made by Jan van Vliet after a work of 1631 by Rembrandt. According to this print of 1657 (third imprint), it shows the portrait of Gy�rgy I R�k�czi (1593-1648), prince of Transylvania, bust in profile to right, in a gorget and cap with feather. However, the name occurs only on the third imprint, and the man in the feathered hat bears no resemblance at all to any of the known portrait of Gy�rgy I R�k�czi.

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Tronie

This tronie was made after the figure in Rembrandt’s ‘Repentant Judas’ of 1629, in a British private collection. It shows a grieving man, half-length figure, turned to right, with his hands folded.

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