Jan van Goyen
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jan Josefsz van Goyen, Jan Josephsz. van Goyen, Jan Josefsz. van Goyen, Jan Josephs van Goyen, Jan van Gooijen, Jan Josephsz. van Gooyen, Jan Josephsz. Vangoyen, Jan Josephsz. Vangoin
Dutch landscape painter (1596-1656)
Key facts
- Born
- Jan Josephszoon van Goyen , ( 1596-01-13 ) 13 January 1596, Leiden , Dutch Republic
- Died
- 27 April 1656 (1656-04-27) (aged 60), The Hague , Dutch Republic
- Education
- Esaias van de Velde
- Known for
- Landscape painting
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Place of birth
- Leiden
- Place of death
- The Hague
- Occupation
- graphic artist
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Student of
- Esaias van de Velde
- Field of work
- painting
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Image
- Terborch Goyenuv portret.jpg
- Work location
- Kleve
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- has works in the collection
- Smith College Museum of Art
- Commons category
- Jan van Goyen
- date of birth
- 1596-01-13
- date of death
- 1656-04-27
- Commons gallery
- Jan van Goyen
- Commons Creator page
- Jan van Goyen
- birth name
- Jan Josephsz. Van Goyen
- student
- Jan Steen
- name in native language
- Jan van Goyen
- start of work period
- 1620-01-01
- end of work period
- 1656-01-01
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Jan van Goyen, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![[The Bridge over the Canal; Watermill near a bridge]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fvisscher-j-d-kopie-ab3-0010%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
[The Bridge over the Canal; Watermill near a bridge]
Plachetnice v prístave
Canal Landscape
Flatland
Dune landscape
Winter Landscape with Sleigh Driver
River Landscape
Broad current ignition
Wirtshaus on Landstraße
Undulous lowland with narrow wooden bridge
Group of farmhouses by the street
River landscape
Flatland
Dutch Landscape with Tree Group
The hostel
Dutch flat landscape
Landscape with hut and trees
River Landscape: Rowing boat with three fishermen
Village on the river
Landscape with street poster
Dune landscape
View of Dordrecht
Ice skating and sleigh on a frozen river
River landscape
Donation on the river bank
View of Nijmegen
View of the Valkhof near Nijmegen
A broken carriage wheel
The Valkhof in Nymweil
River landscape
The stop in front of the tavern
The Haarlemer Sea
River landscape
Winter painting (Dordrecht?)
Dune landscape
View of Arnhem from the northwest
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑɱ vɑŋ ˈɣoːi.ə(n)]; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape 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. 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
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jan van Goyen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.