The Life and Identity of Jan Van Noordt Jan Van Noordt was a painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a man whose life was deeply intertwined with the cultural pulse of the seventeenth-century Netherlands. Born in Schagen around 1623 or 1624, he emerged from a family where music and visual art were part of the domestic fabric. He was one of four sons born to Sibrand van Noordt, a schoolteacher and carillonneur. While Jan pursued the visual ar…