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Dutch, 1596 - 1656
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Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., “Jan van Goyen,” NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/constituent/1354 (accessed March 27, 2023).
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Born on January 13, 1596, Jan Josephsz van Goyen began training as an artist in his native city of Leiden at the early age of ten. The series of teachers with whom he studied included, according to Orlers’ near-contemporary account, Isaac van Swanenburgh (c. 1537–1614). Orlers also says that Van Goyen spent a year in France before going to Haarlem, where he is known to have been a student of
By 1618 Van Goyen had returned to Leiden, where that same year he married Annetje Willemsdr van Raelst. His name occurs frequently in Leiden documents between 1625 and 1632. In 1625 he bought a house on the Sint Peterskerkstraat, which he sold in 1629 to the marine painter Jan Porcellis (c. 1584–1632). Probably in the summer of 1632 he moved to The Hague, becoming a citizen two years later. Although he also worked in Haarlem in 1634, at the house of Salomon van Ruysdael’s brother Isaack (1599–1677), he is thereafter recorded only in The Hague. He bought a house there on the Wagenstraat in 1635 and built another the following year on the Dunne Bierkade, where
During the 1630s, Van Goyen, along with the Haarlem artists
Original text by Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., April 24, 2014.
Revised to change artist image; sitter identification has changed since initial publication.
December 9, 2019