Egbert van Heemskerck

Egbert van Heemskerck, or Egbert Jaspersz van Heemskerk (1634–1704) was a Haarlem Dutch Golden Age painter of genre works who moved to London in the 1670s and died there in 1704. He first became a pupil of the painter Pieter de Grebber. After his father's death, his mother married the art dealer Jan Wijnants in 1651.

In Haarlem in 1663 he declared himself to be 28, and in 1665, he declared himself to be 31 years old. In the early 1670s he moved to London, where one of his often satirical paintings apparently landed him in serious trouble with King Charles II of England. Though he is registered as having died in London in 1704, he was listed by Laurens van der Vinne as one of the painters who had predeceased his father in 1702. His works are sometimes confused with the works of his son, another genre painter also called Egbert van Heemskerk, who lived – 1744. Possibly Egbert Jaspersz had two sons, or perhaps a grandson. The Netherlands Institute for Art History currently splits the works of these painters between the father as "Egbert van Heemskerck (I)" and son as "Egbert van Heemskerck (II)".

Various genre paintings are exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tournai, the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.