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Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet (1605-68) was born in Leiden and entered Rembrandt's studio in about 1630-31. No paintings are known to him, but the volume in the Pelican History of Art devoted to Dutch Art and Architecture 1600-1800 by Jakob Rosenberg, Seymour Slive and E.H. ter Kuile, says he is "important as an etcher" (p. 148). At least some of his etchings were apperantly "executed under Rembrandt's close supervision", possibly, according to C.H. Hind, using Rembrandt's own drawings as models, just as Marcantonio Ramimondi did with Raphael and members of Rubens' 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.
In the early 1630s, Van Vliet made a series of 11 etchings known as The Beggars. This
In this etching a beggar, seen from behind, moves, in what looks like a painful fashion, with the aid of two wooden crutches. The beggar wear a hat embellished with feathers and has a small pan hanging from a satchel to his left side. This portrayal is all the more eloquent in the way it makes us speculate what he looks like viewed frontally. Does the thsistle on the right reflect his pricky character?
See:
Wikipedia, ‘Jan Gillisz van Vliet’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gillisz_van_Vliet
Dr Mark Stocker Curator, Historical International Art April 2019
See: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/v/vliet_j/biograph.html
Dr Mark Stocker Curator, Historical International Art July 2017