REYN, Jan van
REYN, Jan van – Jan van Rijn or Jean de Reyn was a 17th-century European painter of the Flemish Baroque movement. „John of the Rhine“ was a native of Dunkirk, a coastal city along the English Channel, located near the present-day French–Belgian border. He went to England as a young man in company with Antoon van Dyck, learning from the master and assisting with painting projects. After Van Dyck’s death, de Reyn returned to Dunkirk where he had a successful but lower-profile career painting ecclesiastical commissions, and portraits of wealthy businessmen, celebrity pirates, and their wives. His skill level and style is considered to be close to that of van Dyck himself.
