Jan van Goyen

Jan van Goyen (January 13, 1596 - April 27, 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter.

Biography

Like many Dutch painters of his time, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at Den Haag (The Hague).

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Dutch - Haarlem - Den Haag

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Typically, a Dutch painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age) will fall into one of four categories, a painter of portraits, landscapes, still-lifes, or genre. Dutch painting was highly specialized and rarely could an artist hope to achieve greatness in more than one area in a lifetime of painting. Jan van Goyen would be classified primarily as a landscape artist with an eye for the genre subjects of everyday life. He painted many of the canals in and around Den Haag as well as the villages surrounding countryside of Delft, Rotterdam, Leiden, and Gouda.

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17th century - Dutch Golden Age - Genre - Delft - Rotterdam - Leiden - Gouda

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