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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Jan Jansz. van der Heyden was born in Gorinchem in 1637. He probably first trained as a glass painter. He settled in Amsterdam by 1650. He painted numerous views of the city as seen in this example but was also a landscape and still life painter. This is possibly an early work as it uses a landscape that is more Italianate in inspiration than the wooded scenes he painted at the end of his life. The artist is not recorded as having ever visited Italy. However Smith believed that the artist's interest in pure landscape developed only after that in architecture and so therefore this is a late work. This is a small example even by van der Heyden's standards. | Subjects: | landscape; townscape; buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Heyden, Jan van der (Dutch painter, 1637-1712) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8864... | Go to resource |
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