(1647 - 1733)
Jan van Huchtenburg was the younger of two Dutch brothers who both worked as painters in the latter seventeenth century. Huchtenburg first studied painting under the Dutch painter and printmaker Thomas Wyck (1616–1677). He later travelled to Paris where he was employed by the French painter Anthony Francis van der Meulen, battle painter to Louis XIV of France. In 1670 he moved to Haarlem in the Netherlands where he painted scenes of hunts and horsemen in action and was a dealer in fine art. Later he painted the engagements of troops and received commissions from Prince Eugene of Savoy and King William III. From 1696, he worked as court painter to Prince Eugene. Huchtenburg died in Amsterdam in 1733.
This work was formerly attributed to the Dutch horse painter Philips Wouwermans (1619–1668). In 2002, a curator at the National Gallery in London suggested a reattribution to Huchtenburg. Both artists worked in a similar manner.
