'the other' Jan van Kessel

After training in Antwerp he moved to the Dutch Republic where he is recorded as operating a studio in Amsterdam.

He is recorded in 1649 in Amsterdam, where he received in September 1649 two assistants: Jan Baptist Walvis and Gerrit Cornelisz.

[2] Attribution of work to 'the other' Jan van Kessel has been difficult due to confusion with other artists with a similar name all active around the same time.

Art historian K. Ertz considers 'the other' Jan van Kessel as not inferior to Jan van Kessel the Elder, and even believes him to eclipse his more famous namesake in his masterpiece Swags of fruit and flowers surrounding a cartouche with a sulphur-crested cockatoo.

This work is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum where it is still attributed to Jan van Kessel the Elder.

Swags of fruit and flowers surrounding a cartouche with a sulphur-crested cockatoo
A still life of a swan and other birds, with rabbits, fruit and vegetables and a landscape beyond