page_title: Jan van Wechelen
section_title: General
hierarchical_section_title: Jan van Wechelen / Work / General
context_page_description: Jan van Wechelen or Hans van Wechelen was a Flemish painter and draughtsman active in Antwerp in the middle of the 16th century known for his landscapes and genre scenes.
context_section_description: Only a few works by Jan van Wechelen are known to exist as most of his oeuvre was destroyed by war and the Iconoclasm of the 16th century. The majority of these are landscapes and religious scenes.  His oeuvre also includes a few genres scenes and an architectural painting of a church interior.  The artist’s work enjoyed an excellent reputation at the beginning of the 17th century and was collected by Rubens as well as the prominent art collectors Cornelis van der Geest and Pieter Stevens.
  Jan van Wechelen collaborated regularly with fellow Antwerp artist Cornelis van Dalem. Van Wechelen was a gifted staffage painter and his dignified figures are regarded as well suited to van Dalem’s landscapes.  At least three such collaborations between the two artists are suspected. This includes a  Landscape with nomads (also known as Landscape with gypsies at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.  This painting likely represents a family of gypsies as a seated woman wears the distinctive oval white hat which was a common indicator for a gypsy woman in 16th century Flemish paintings.
caption: The Legend of the Baker of Eeklo
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