Jan Wils (painter)

Jan Wils (1603–1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he was one of a group of teachers of Nicolaes Berchem, along with Berchem's father Pieter Klaaze (a "gemeen" or common painter), Jan van Goijen, Klaas Mojaart, Pieter Fransze Grebber, and Berchem's cousin Giov.

[1] Jan Wils' daughter married Berchem, and when she heard nothing from his studio upstairs, she would bang on the ceiling with a mop to wake him up, assuming he had fallen asleep at his easel.

[1] According to the RKD he was baptized on June 15, 1603 in the Nieuwe Kerk and was buried there 22 October 1666.

[2] He had been a pupil of Pieter de Molijn and is known for Italianate landscapes.