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Jan Lievens - Landscape with figures

Landscape with figures (1620–74)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
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Jan Lievens

Jan Lievens was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was associated with his close contemporary Rembrandt, a year older, in the early parts of their careers. They shared a birthplace in Leiden, training with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, where they shared a studio for about five years until 1631. Like Rembrandt he painted both portraits and history paintings, but unlike him Lievens' career took him away from Amsterdam to London, Antwerp, The Hague and Berlin.

According to Arnold Houbraken, Jan was the son of Lieven Hendriksze, a tapestry worker (borduurwerker), and was trained by Joris Verschoten. He was sent to Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam at about the age of 10 for two full years. After that he began his career as an independent artist, at about the age of 12 in Leiden. He became something of a celebrity because of his talent at such a young age. Specifically, his copy of Democriet & Herakliet by Cornelis van Haarlem (illustration), and a portrait of his mother Machtelt Jans van Noortzant, were admired.

This attracted the attention of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, around 1620, who bought a life-size painting of a young man reading by the light of a turf-fire. He gave this painting in turn to the English Ambassador, who presented it to James I. This was the reason why in 1631, when Lievens was 24, he was invited to the British court. Houbraken appears to have taken this account directly from Jan Orlers' Beschrijvinge der Stad Leyden (1641) which gives a life of Jan Lievens in pages 375-7 including these details. However a painting by Lievens in the Getty Museum of Prince Charles Louis and his Tutor which must have been painted in Leiden is clearly signed and dated 1631, so the exact timing of his trip to England is open to doubt.

When he returned from England via Calais, he settled in Antwerp, where he married Suzanna Colyn de Nole, the daughter of the sculptor Michiel Colyns, on 23 December 1638. In this period he won many commissions from royalty, mayors, and city halls. According to Houbraken, a Continence of Scipio was painted for the Leiden city hall. A poem by Joost van den Vondel was written in honor of a painting (a schoorsteenstuk, or over the mantel piece) he made for the mayor's office of the Amsterdam city hall (now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam) in 1661. According to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, this piece survives and depicts Brinno raised on a shield with the Cananefates, after a similar painting by Otto van Veen in 1613.

Lievens collaborated and shared a studio with Rembrandt van Rijn from about 1626 to 1631. Their competitive collaboration, represented in some two dozen paintings, drawings and etchings, was intimate enough to cause difficulties in the attribution of works from this period. Lievens showed talent for painting in a life-size scale, and his dramatic compositions suggest the influence of the Caravaggisti. In Constantijn Huygens' assessment, Lievens was more inventive, yet less expressive than Rembrandt. The two men split in 1631, when Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam and Lievens to England. In 1656 Rembrandt still owned paintings by his former friend.

During his time in England Lievens painted a portrait for Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and became influenced by the works of Anthony van Dyck. Lievens worked in Antwerp, and cooperated with Adriaen Brouwer. After being a court painter in The Hague and Berlin, he returned to Amsterdam in 1655. After his first wife died he married a sister of Jan de Bray in 1648. After 1672, the Rampjaar Lievens had increasing financial difficulties and his family voided all claims of inheritance on his death due to his debts.

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Study of a man looking up

Study of a man looking up

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock

Landscape with a Shepherd and His Flock (1622–74)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
A Young Girl

A Young Girl

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Eine Gruppe von Eichenstämmen

Eine Gruppe von Eichenstämmen

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Ein Schäfer auf einem Hügel unter Bäumen liegend

Ein Schäfer auf einem Hügel unter Bäumen liegend

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Bildnis einer in einem Sessel sitzenden Dame nach links

Bildnis einer in einem Sessel sitzenden Dame nach links (1650)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Brinio Raised on a Shield

Brinio Raised on a Shield (1650-1661)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Landscape with Milkmaid

Landscape with Milkmaid (1622–74)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Forest landscape

Forest landscape (ca 1650-1669)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Das Innere eines Waldes, rechts sitzt ein Maler an der Staffelei

Das Innere eines Waldes, rechts sitzt ein Maler an der Staffelei

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Quintus Fabius Maximus

Quintus Fabius Maximus (1656)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Old Woman Reading

Old Woman Reading (1626 - 1633)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Bearded Man with a Beret

Bearded Man with a Beret (c. 1630)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
A Young Artist

A Young Artist

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Allegory of Peace

Allegory of Peace (1652)

Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
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