Jan van der Vaart (painter)

[1] Van der Vaart was born in Haarlem, where he trained with Thomas Wijck.

Here he worked in the workshop of another Dutch immigrant, Willem Wissing, who was a pupil and former collaborator of the court portrait painter Sir Peter Lely.

Van der Vaart painted draperies and landscapes in the portraits of Wissing.

[1] In 1713 van der Vaart sold off his collection and built a house in Covent Garden.

[1] A number of van der Vaard's portraits were engraved in mezzotint by Bernard Lens for the print publisher Edward Cooper.