title: Jan van Kessel
text: # Jan van Kessel
  
  Jan van Kessel may refer to one of the following 17th and 18th century painters:
  
  * Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626–1679), a painter from Antwerp, specialized in flower and animal painting
  * Jan van Kessel the Younger (1654–1708), his son, specialized in portraits
  * 'the other' Jan van Kessel (ca. 1620 – in or after 1661), a still life painter from Antwerp who moved to Amsterdam
  * Jan van Kessel (Amsterdam) (1641–1680), a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
  * Jan Thomas van Kessel (1677–1741), a genre and portrait painter from Antwerp
  * Pseudo-Jan van Kessel the Younger, the notname given to a still life artist or workshop active in Southern Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century
  