a Flemish painter who specialized in landscapes and in particular winter landscapes. Leytens painted mainly landscapes. All known landscapes by him are winter landscapes except for a few such as A mountainous landscape with deer in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig and a Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm. It is known that he painted six marine paintings but these are now lost.
