Jan Ekels the Elder

Beverwijk: view on Peperstraat from Koningstraat with the Wijker Toren

Jan Ekels the Elder (1724 Amsterdam -1781, Amsterdam), was a scholar of Dirk Dalens, the younger. He painted views of cities in the manner of Jan ten Compe. His pictures are generally of a small size, and are highly finished, with a good effect of light and shade.

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This article incorporates text from the article "EKELS, Jan, the Elder" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.