Jan Baptist Wolfaerts

He trained in Antwerp and subsequently worked for extensive periods in Italy and the Dutch Republic.

By 1665 he had returned to Haarlem, but his mental health problem made him move back to Antwerp once more.

In September 1671 there are further reports on the artist who was back in Haarlem about his continuing confused state of mind.

His works were sold through the Amsterdam dealer Van Meldert who carried five examples in 1653 and were in the collection of artist and art collector Abraham de Pape of Leiden.

He also painted some more typically Dutch landscapes with fewer figures, which are closer to his Haarlem contemporaries.

Dune landscape with a peasant woman milking sheep outside a farmhouse
Shepherds with their cattle in a hilly river landscape
Shepherdesses tending their flock