# Jan Both artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-both/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T14:44:00.908Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Dutch
- Movements: Dutch Italianate landscape painting, Second generation of Dutch Italianates
- Common media: Painting, Drawing, Etching

## Portrait

![Jan Both](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/HUA-104142-Portret_van_Jan_Both_geboren_Utrecht_1610_kunstschilder_te_Utrecht_overleden_1652_Te_halve_lijve_links_steunend_op_een_console.jpg/1280px-HUA-104142-Portret_van_Jan_Both_geboren_Utrecht_1610_kunstschilder_te_Utrecht_overleden_1652_Te_halve_lijve_links_steunend_op_een_console.jpg)
https://hetutrechtsarchief.nl/beeld/D1DDE3D079FA54CBBFE543DBDB3D7CA0 · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HUA-104142-Portret_van_Jan_Both_geboren_Utrecht_1610_kunstschilder_te_Utrecht_overleden_1652_Te_halve_lijve_links_steunend_op_een_console.jpg

## About Jan Both

Jan Both was a seventeenth-century Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher associated with Dutch Italianate landscape painting. He is also identified as Jan Dirksz Both and is described as the younger brother of artist Andries Both. Sources place him among the second generation of northern artists connected with Italianate landscape traditions, and his work contributed to the development of that field in Dutch art. Collectors may encounter his name on landscape paintings, drawings, and etched prints, as well as in museum and library authority records. The collected sources do not settle his birth year: Art UK identifies him as born circa 1618, while archival portrait metadata gives 1610. His death year is more consistently recorded as 1652. Appraisily therefore treats the birth chronology cautiously and distinguishes a documented identity match from any conclusion about the authorship of an individual object.

## Common works and media

Landscape paintings form the principal category associated with Jan Both. Drawings and etchings may also appear in collections and auction records, reflecting his documented activity as a draughtsman and printmaker. Works should be categorized by medium and assessed for their relationship to the Dutch Italianate landscape tradition before selecting comparable sales.

## Market and appraisal context

Jan Both auction records should be compared within like categories, separating paintings from drawings and etched prints. Subject matter and the relationship of a work to his Italianate landscape context can also help define a relevant comparison set. The collected Appraisily input reports 344 records, but this source pack does not include fetched major-auction-house lot descriptions or a verified breakdown by medium. That count should therefore be treated as an availability signal rather than evidence of value. Attribution, condition, provenance, dimensions, date, and the quality of individual comparables require object- and lot-level review before an appraisal conclusion can be supported.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity records provide context but do not authenticate an individual work or replace object-level appraisal research.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981631
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500032845
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG20383
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.3584.html
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/both-jan-c-16181652
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dirksz_Both
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Both
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Both
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/jan-both/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HUA-104142-Portret_van_Jan_Both_geboren_Utrecht_1610_kunstschilder_te_Utrecht_overleden_1652_Te_halve_lijve_links_steunend_op_een_console.jpg