Jan Ekels the Younger

Jan Ekels the Younger (1759 Amsterdam - 1793), was a Dutch painter and draftsman of genre pieces and an imitator of the old masters, especially of J. Molenaer, Gerard Ter Borch and Gabriel Metsu.

He was trained by his father Jan Ekels the Elder living at Herengracht.

From 1776 to 1778 he studied in Paris, where he was introduced to French neoclassicism and Jean Siméon Chardin.

He never married and lived at Nieuwe Doelenstraat in an expensive hotel after his mother died; Jan was her only heir.

Two pictures by him, one representing A young Man drawing, and the other A Peasant lighting a Pipe, are in the Städel Gallery at Frankfurt.