Career
According to Houbraken January was the father of the painter Mathys van den Berg who had been a pupil of Hendrick Goltzius in Haarlem until January, whose father was a school teacher, moved with his family to Brabant when his father was sent there. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Goltzius in Haarlem and of Rubens in Antwerp. In 1649-1650 his name is registered in the Alkmaar Guild of Saint Luke, where he took on the pupil Adriaen Jansz Decker.
