Jan Baptist Huysmans

A work entitled Landscape with animals (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium), which is signed and dated to 1697, and another one entitled Landscape with Ruins (Shipley Art Gallery), which is signed and dated to 1694, have allowed more of his oeuvre to be distinguished from that of his brother.

His works are often a fusion of the style of North European wooded landscape painting with the Italian inspired vista.

These landscapes often depict a glimpse of a pastoral idyll although they may sometimes include elements such as ruins and a tomb, which remind the viewer of the closeness of death.

Jan Baptist Huysmans would typically provide the landscape elements in these collaborative works.

[7] Examples of collaborations with Quellinus are the Mercury turns the jealous Aglaulus into stone in the Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille (c. 1700) and the composition A ruined classical archway mentioned in the previous paragraph.