Jan van den Bergh (1587 in Alkmaar – 1660 in Alkmaar), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
According to Houbraken Jan was the father of the painter Mathys van den Berg who had been a pupil of Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem until Jan, whose father was a school teacher, moved with his family to Brabant when his father was sent there.
[1] Jan went on drawing and came to make the acquaintance of Peter Paul Rubens, who became friends with him and encouraged his artistic endeavors while appointing him manager of his lands in Ypres.
[1] According to the RKD he was a pupil of Goltzius in Haarlem and of Rubens in Antwerp.
[2] In 1649-1650 his name is registered in the Alkmaar Guild of St. Luke, where he took on the pupil Adriaen Jansz Decker.