Jan van Pee

Though his father had earned a title, there was little inheritance left for Emanuel when he died, so Emanuel started an art dealership to make a living, and moved to Amsterdam, where Jan van Pee was born and where he starting working for his father at a young age making copies of small cabinet paintings ("Dozynwerk", or "works of a dozen").

[1] Then he and De Nys travelled via Leiden and Rotterdam to Antwerp, where they went to all of the churches and monasteries to admire the work of Rubens, Jordaens, and Van Dijk.

[1] Pee hired a beggar to sit for an allegorical painting of Saint Peter, while De Nys bought some dead birds to make a hunting still life.

[1] Van Pee again sent a letter to his wife requesting her to move the household to Antwerp, but she refused and claimed the art dealership was doing fine and she preferred to stay with her children in Amsterdam, where she had no need of him at all.

[4] Van Pee also made genre scenes of his own invention, and he is known to have created a number of well-painted oil studies of animals, usually closely grouped on a buff coloured ground.