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Jan Josefsz Van Goyen Paintings

Dutch, 1596-1656
Jan Josefsz Van Goyen (1596–1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his work was very broad including; marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants. He wass an extremely prolific artist who left at least twelve hundred paintings. Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leiden, the town of his birth. Like many Dutch painters of his time, he studied art in the town of Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at The Hague He always sought more income, as an art dealer and auctioneer but also by speculating in tulips (he was the last known victim of the tulip mania of the 1630s) and real estate. Although the latter was usually a safe avenue of investing money, in van Goyen's experience it led to enormous debts. Paulus Potter rented one of his houses. Though he seems to have kept a workshop, his only registered pupils were Nicolaes van Berchem, Jan Steen, and Adriaen van der Kabel. The list of painters he influenced is much longer. In 1652 and 1654, he was forced to sell his collection of paintings he subsequently moved to a smaller house. He died in 1656 in The Hague, unbelievably 18,000 guilders in debt, forcing his widow to sell their remaining furniture and paintings. 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 The Hague as well as the villages surrounding the countryside of Delft, Rotterdam, Leiden, and Gouda. Jan van Goyen would begin a painting using a support primarily of thin oak wood. To this panel, he would scrub on several layers of a thin animal hide glue. With a blade, he would then scrape over the entire surface a thin layer of tinted white lead to act as a ground and to fill the low areas of the panel. The ground was tinted light brown, sometimes reddish, or ochre in colour. Next, he would rapidly sketch out the scene to be painted with pen and ink without the small details of his subject. This walnut ink drawing can be clearly seen in some of the thinly painted areas of his work. The scene would have been drawn from life outdoors and then kept in the studio as reference material. On his palette he would grind out a colour collection of neutral grays, umbers, ochre and earthen greens that looked like they were pulled from the very soil he painted. A varnish oil medium was used as vehicle to grind his powdered pigments into paint and then used to help apply thin layers of paint which he could easily blend. According to the art historian H. U. Beck, "In his freely composed seascapes of the 1650s he reached the apex of his creative work, producing paintings of striking perfection."
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Artist: Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Landscapes with Figures by a Barn - Old Masters Landscape Oil Painting, 1637
Landscapes with Figures by a Barn - Old Masters Landscape Oil Painting, 1637

Landscapes with Figures by a Barn - Old Masters Landscape Oil Painting, 1637

By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen

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Jan van Goyen's 'Landscape with Figures by a Barn' (1637) was painted the year before he was elected hoofdman of The Hague's Guild of Saint Luke, an office that recognized a landscap...

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17th Century Old Masters Jan Josefsz Van Goyen Paintings

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River Scene with Cottages - Old Masters Oil on Panel Landscape Painting, 1638
River Scene with Cottages - Old Masters Oil on Panel Landscape Painting, 1638

River Scene with Cottages - Old Masters Oil on Panel Landscape Painting, 1638

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Located in Palm Desert, CA

Jan van Goyen's 'River Scene with Cottages' (1638) dates to the year he was elected hoofdman of The Hague's Guild of Saint Luke, an honor he held again in 1640. By 1638 he had entere...

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17th Century Old Masters Jan Josefsz Van Goyen Paintings

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Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen

Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen

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No Dutch draughtsman ever captured the atmosphere of the rural countryside of Holland with the same atmospheric and engaging simplicity that Van Goyen achieved in drawings such as this. Indeed, his landscapes were seminal in the development of the genre. The present sketch conveys a striking sense of movement within the natural landscape, conveyed by the deftly applied strokes of chalk, from which the artist’s hand can be sensed. The composition is characteristic of his work, with the low horizon affording significance to the broad sky and the soaring birds within. This feeling of windswept motion powerfully evokes the expansive Dutch farmland with which he was evidently preoccupied. 1. Jan van Goyen...

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