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Jan van Goyen - A river landscape with the ruins of Merwede

A river landscape with the ruins of Merwede

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)
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Jan van Goyen

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.

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, Jan van Goyen studied art in the town of Haarlem with Esaias van de Velde. At age 35, he established a permanent studio at Den Haag (The Hague). Crenshaw tells (and mentions the sources) that van Goyen's landscape paintings rarely fetched high prices, but he made up for the modest value of individual pieces by increasing his production, painting thinly and quickly with a limited palette of inexpensive pigments. Despite his market innovations, he always sought more income, not only through related work as an art dealer and auctioneer but also by speculating in tulips 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 and graphic art, and he subsequently moved to a smaller house. He died in 1656 in The Hague, still unbelievably 18,000 guilders in debt, forcing his widow to sell their remaining furniture and paintings. Van Goyen's troubles also may have affected the early business prospects of his student and son-in-law Jan Steen, who left The Hague in 1654.

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Panorama Landscape with a View of Arnheim (1646)

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A Village Festival with Musicians Playing Outside a Tent (1653)

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Dutch Landscape (1625)

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Coast Scene

Coast Scene (1650)

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Farms

Farms (1633-34)

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A Beach with Fishing Boats

A Beach with Fishing Boats (1653)

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)
Winter Pleasures on the Merwede

Winter Pleasures on the Merwede (1643)

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River Scene with the ‘Swan’ Tavern

River Scene with the ‘Swan’ Tavern (1646)

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River Landscape in Winter with Figures Skating and Sleds

River Landscape in Winter with Figures Skating and Sleds (1651)

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River View with Sentry Post

River View with Sentry Post (1644)

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The Old Church at Egmond aan Zee

The Old Church at Egmond aan Zee (1634)

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View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer

View of Haarlem and the Haarlemmer Meer (1646)

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)
A Castle (on the Rhine)

A Castle (on the Rhine) (early 17th–mid 17th century)

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Ansicht von Kleve mit Schwanenburg und Stiftskirche

Ansicht von Kleve mit Schwanenburg und Stiftskirche (1653)

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A river landscape with a manor house, rowing boats and other vessels

A river landscape with a manor house, rowing boats and other vessels (1645)

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656)
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