Jan Ekels the Younger

A Writer Trimming his Pen, 1784, now in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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 the article "EKELS, Jan, the Younger" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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