Johannes (Jan) van Haensbergen (1642–1705)

• Was  a Dutch Golden Age painter.

• He was registered in the Utrecht Guild of St. Luke in 1668.

• In 1669 he was registered in the Confrerie Pictura in The Hague, where he married Johanna van Heusden.

• According to Houbraken he was born in Utrecht.

• He was a student of Cornelius van Poelenburgh.

• His son Willem Johan van Haensbergen, born after his second marriage to Sophia van der Snouck in 1679, is listed as his pupil.

• According to Houbraken, Haensbergen became an art dealer in The Hague with a man named "De Jode", who was "Drost van 't Haagse Hof".

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