Jan Anton van der Baren

Jan Anton van der Baren[1] (1615 – 30 or 31 December 1686) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, priest and museum curator active in Brussels and Vienna.

[5][6] After the Archduke’s death in 1662, van der Baren continued to hold the offices of court chaplain and director of the picture gallery under Emperor Leopold I.

[2] Van der Baren is regarded as an amateur painter since he did not paint professionally but was principally a priest and a court official.

[4] The 1659 inventory of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's collection shows that it included 12 works by van der Baren.

Garland paintings are a special type of still life invented in Antwerp and whose earliest practitioner was Jan Brueghel the Elder.

An example is the Garland of flowers surrounding the Holy Family in the Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), a collaboration with van Hoy.