Lingelbach was born in Frankfurt; his family later moved to Amsterdam. He is said to have gone to France in 1642, and then to Rome. He returned to Amsterdam a decade later, where he worked for the rest of his life.
Lingelbach was a figure painter and probably contributed the figures to these pictures by Koninck and Wijnants in the Collection.
Jan Lingelbach
1622 - 1674
Paintings by Jan Lingelbach
In seventeenth-century Holland city dwellers displayed scenes of peasant life on the walls of their homes. They enjoyed idealised pastoral scenes or, in this case, the fun of looking at the various people and activities they may have seen on visits to the country.Jan Lingelbach was increasingly i...
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Possibly by Jan Lingelbach
Lit by a shaft of sunlight against dark shadows behind, the group of figures playing cards form a colourful distraction in a rather grey environment. We are witnessing a moment of triumph: the man in the red coat has just produced an ace while his opponent, in the blue jerkin, has the expression...
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