Jan Theodoor Toorop (20 December 1858 - 3 March 1928), Dutch symbolist painter. Born in Java, he studied in Delft, then at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He won a scolarship, which allowed him to study in Brussels, where he also joined Les Vingt group. The members of this group rejected the Oficial Salon and wanted to organise their own exhibitions, and at one time Van Gogh was invited to join them, yet he refused saying that he wasn't good enough.
In 1886 Toorop went to London, where he met Whistler and discovered the Pre-Raphaelite style. By 1890 he started working in a free, personal style, strongly influenced by symbolism, with Indonesian elements. Two years later he organised the first Dutch exhibition of Van Gogh's paintings, with moderate success. Since 1905, after converting to Catholicism, he started producing mainly religious compositions.
He was very popular in Holland at this time, his canvases being much in demand, while the copies decorated many middle-class homes.