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| Andries Both The Distressed Painter (children behind him and wife grinding colors) before 1640 drawing on vellum British Museum |
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| Andries Both The Successful Painter (apprentices grinding colors and drawing) before 1640 drawing on vellum British Museum |
"Andries and Jan Both were sons of the glass painter Dirck Both. His father paid the Utrecht guild tuition fees for Andries in 1624 and 1625 . . . between 1634 and 1637 tuition fees were again paid to the Utrecht guild for a son of Dirck's and this must have been Jan. . . . Sandrart says the two brothers travelled to Italy by way of France, "through constant industry they raised great hopes, they also visited foreign countries, and went via the usual route first to France and then to Italy to Rome." . . . Andries and Jan are mentioned together in Rome for the first time on 12 June 1638 when they attended an artists' meeting. In 1636 Andres was still living alone, but in 1639 and 1641 he was living with his brother in the parish of San Lorenzo in Lucina. In 1642 Jan Both was still in Rome, where Cardinal Antonio Barberini paid him 60 scudi for supplying two paintings. In the same year the brothers probably set out together for Venice, where Andries drowned. This happened, according to the register of deaths, in the district of San Giovanni in Bragola during the night of 23 March 1642. Jan returned to the Netherlands, and was registered in Utrecht in 1644, 1648, 1649 and 1650. He died in 1652 and was buried on 9 August of that year."
– Peter Schatborn, from the catalogue of a 2001 exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, published in English as Drawn to Warmth: 17th-century Dutch artists in Italy, translated by Lynne Richards
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| Jan Both Arch of Titus, Rome before 1652 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Jan Both Italianate landscape with ruined tower ca. 1640-50 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan Both Wayfarer on winding road in Italianate landscape before 1652 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Jan Both Rocky landscape before 1652 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Both Chestnut seller in a ruin before 1652 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Both Landscape with stone bridge (Ponte-Molle) ca. 1636-40 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Both Landscape with stone bridge (Ponte Molle) ca. 1636-40 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Jan Both Italian landscape with the Ponte Molle ca. 1640-52 oil on copper Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Both Italian landscape with a draughtsman ca. 1650-52 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Both Italian landscape with a ferry ca. 1652 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Both Street scene placed among Roman ruins ca. 1640-52 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan Both Italian landscape with Roman warriors ca. 1650 oil on canvas Hermitage, St Petersburg |
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| Cornelis van Poelenburgh Portrait of Jan Both before 1652 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |