Jan Micker (1598 - 1664)

Jan Micker

Jan Christiaensz. Micker was a Dutch landscape painter of the Golden Age of Dutch painting.

Jan Micker worked as a painter from 1618 until his death. He was the first teacher of Jan Baptist Wenix and painted staffage in the paintings of Jan Franz Dammeroen, Hans Jurriens van Baden and Joachim Goverts Kamphuizen. His most famous painting is Vogelflücht, which depicts Amsterdam from a bird's eye view. The painting was created around 1652 and is now in the Amsterdam Museum.