Jan van goyen biography
Born on January 13, , Jan Josephsz van Goyen began training as an artist in his native city of Leiden at the early age of ten....
Jan van Goyen
Dutch landscape painter (1596–1656)
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈjɑɱvɑŋˈɣoːi.ə(n)]; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutchlandscape painter.
The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscapes, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants.[1] The list of painters he influenced is much longer.
He was an extremely prolific artist who left approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings.
Biography
Jan van Goyen was the son of a shoemaker and started as an apprentice in Leiden, the town of his birth.
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter.
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 (Den Haag). Crenshaw tells (and mentions the sources) that van Goyen's landscape paintings rarely fetched high prices, but