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Jan van Goyen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jan van Goyen The Dutch painter Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) was a leader in the progressive landscape style...which achieved a new freedom from traditional formulas. Jan van Goyen was born in Leiden on Jan. 13, 1596. Apprenticed from the...
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Jan Josephszoon van Goyen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen , 1596-1656, Dutch landscape painter. He studied at Leiden and Haarlem...View of Dordrecht (Rijks Mus.). The Metropolitan Museum has five of van Goyen's works, and the Pennsylvania Academy, two.
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Goyen, (Charles) William
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Goyen, [Charles] William (1915–83), Texas‐born author, educated at Rice, after service in the navy taught...
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Aelbert Cuyp
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Aelbert painted skillful monochromatic dune and river landscapes with diagonal compositions, much in the manner of Jan van Goyen. Because of the scarcity of dated works it is impossible to say precisely when Cuyp introduced the misty golden light that...
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van de Velde
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...landscapes. His Ferry Boat (Rijks Mus.) is indicative of the trend Dutch landscape was soon to follow. Esaias's pupil Jan van Goyen was greatly influenced by his work. His brother Willem van de Velde, the elder, 1611-93, a marine painter, accompanied...
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Leiden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...embarked (1620) for America. Leiden was the birthplace of the Anabaptist leader John of Leiden and of the painters Jan van Goyen, Jan Steen, Lucas van Leyden, and Rembrandt. The city has a 10th-century fortress; two old churches, the Pieterskerk...
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landscape painting
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Poussin contrasted with the concurrent Dutch tendency toward realism. The great 17th-century Dutch landscape masters from van Goyen to Ruisdael , Hobbema , and Rembrandt transformed into paint what they saw in the Dutch countryside (see Dutch art ). The...
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Jan Steen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jan Steen , 1626-79, Dutch genre painter, b. Leiden. He studied in Utrecht and in Haarlem under Van Ostade and Van Goyen, whose daughter he married. His huge production of paintings, numbering nearly 900, reveal the influence of most of the...
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The Art Market and Collecting
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...One approach was to create works to be sold to clients of different means. Thus seventeenth-century Dutch artist Jan van Goyen (1596 – 1656) developed a technique for quickly producing landscape paintings that could then be sold at comparatively...
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