Jan Victors or Fictor was a Golden Age Dutch painter who focused primarily on painting the subject of the Bible.
He was known in Haarlem in a catalog taxes in 1722 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn. Although it is true that Rembrandt worked for, is clear from the girl at a window he had carefully examined the paintings of Rembrandt.
He was only twenty years old when he painted this scene, and look of expectation in the face of the girl shows a remarkable study of character.
Like many painters of Amsterdam after the rampjaar 1672, fell on bad times and took a position as ziekentrooster, a combination of professional work as a nurse and a priest, with the Company Dutch East Indies in 1676. He died shortly after his arrival in Indonesia.
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