Jan van Hoogstraten

Jan van Hoogstraten (26 January 1628 – 28 July 1654) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who died young in Vienna, where he was living with his older brother Samuel van Hoogstraten.

Biography Jan van Hoogstraten was born in Dordrecht. According to Houbraken he was the son of the painter Dirk van Hoogstraten and became a master in the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1649. He travelled with his brother Samuel to Vienna to work at court, and died there at a young age in 1653.

He was buried in the St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, where a sculpting friend of Samuel's made a small marble sculpture of a child at his grave, as a monument to his memory. Samuel's brother François van Hoogstraten later wrote a poem in memory of Jan,