a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre painting in the mid 17th-century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits. He created a few religiously themed compositions. Joos van Craesbeeck painted mainly genre scenes and a few religiously themed compositions. His genre scenes depict low-life figures as well as scenes of middle class people. The chronology of his work is difficult to establish since only one painting, the now missing Self-portrait in front of a Mirror is signed.
