Jan Victors

He was a conscientious member of the Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church, and for this reason he avoided creating art which depicts Christ, angels, or nudity.

He was described in a Haarlem tax listing in 1622 as a student of Rembrandt van Rijn.

He was only twenty when he painted this scene, and the look of expectation on the girl's face shows a remarkable study of character.

[2] He seems to have abandoned painting well before the rampjaar of 1672, when, like many painters in Amsterdam, he fell onto bad times and took a position as ziekentrooster (lit.

'comforter of the sick'), a role as professional nurse and cleric, with the Dutch East India Company in 1676.