a Dutch Golden Age painter. Jan and his brother Jacob Pynas were good at landscapes and figures, but Jan was better than Jacob. He made two trips to Italy in 1605 and 1617 and it is not certain his brother accompanied him. The works of the Pynas brothers are close in style to the painter Adam Elsheimer, and there has been a history of mis-attribution between the three, where both of the Pynas brothers are known to have signed their works "J. Pynas."
