_Jan Wils_ (Dutch: about 1600-1670).
Wils, whose pictures are seldom met with, "would appear, from
the style of most of his works, to have studied under Jan
Both at Utrecht.... He was the father-in-law and one of the
teachers of Nicolas Berchem, between whose works and some of
those of Wils (as, for instance, the present picture) a great
resemblance may be traced" (Official Catalogue).
The figures in this picture are supposed to have been put in by
Wouwerman.