Jan Teunissen (1949) grew up in Zeelst, near Eindhoven in the south of The Netherlands. Now he lives and works in Best also located in the Dutch region North Brabant. Initially he followed a technical education, and he graduated as an industrial engineer. Mainly self-taught, he has since 1983 been skilled in the craft of realistic painting. Until 2002, he did so in addition to a job in industry, in order then to focus entirely to painting.

Jan Teunissen has been admitted to the select group of "Masters of Realism".