Discover painter, draftsperson, etcher Jan van Goyen

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: Goyen, Jan Josefsz. van
Goyen, Jan Josephsz. van

Monogram: VG

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, etcher, art dealer (person), appraiser

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Leiden (city) 1596-01-13
Houbraken 1718, p. 170

Deceased: The Hague (city) 1656-04-27

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Joseph Jansz van Goyen and Geertgen Dircksdr van Eck; married in Leiden on 5 August 1618 to Annetje Willemsdr. van Raelst (died 1672); father of Margaretha van Goyen (1624-1669, married 1649 to Jan Steen) and Maria van Goyen (1626-1662, married 1649 to Jacob de Gryef)

This person/entity in other databases

1 hit in RKDcollections
1076 hits in RKDimages as artist
53 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
8695 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
92 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1620 - 1656
earliest known work from 1620

Active in

Leiden (stad)
Hoorn (plaats, Noord-Holland)
was here an apprentice of Willem Gerritsz
Leiden (stad) 1610 - 1615
c.
Frankrijk 1615 - 1616
study trip (Houbraken 1718)
Leiden (stad) 1616
Haarlem (stad) 1617
was here an apprentice of Esaias van de Velde for a year (Houbraken 1718)
Leiden (stad) 1618 - 1631
married in 1618
Den Haag (stad) 1631 - 1634
According to Houbraken, he moved to The Hague in 1631.
Haarlem (stad) 1634
Den Haag (stad) 1635 - 1656
Tiel (plaats) 1650
In 1650-51 Jan van Goyen undertook a trip along the villages of the Rhine and Waal river, travelling via Tiel, Nijmegen and Emmerich to Cleves and returning via Renkum and Bodegraven to Arnhem; sketschbook partly presenrved
Nijmegen (stad)
Emmerik
Kleef 1650 - 1651
Renkum (plaats)
Bodegraven
Arnhem (plaats)
Den Haag (stad)

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Clock, Cornelis Cornelisz.
Gerritsz, Willem
Man, Jan Adriansz. de
Schilperoort, Coenraet van
Swanenburg, Isaac Claesz. van
Velde, Esaias van de
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Berchem, Nicolaes
Kabel, Adriaen van der
Steen, Jan
Follower of: Porcellis, Jan
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Bie, Cornelis de (1622-1664)
Bie, Cornelis de (1627-1711)
Bloot, Pieter de
Bools, P.D.
Bos, V.
Coelenbier, Jan
Croos, Anthonie van
Diest, Jeronymus van (II)
Diest, Willem van
Fargue, Karel la
Gorter, Jacob de
Hoop, Wouter
Hulst, Maerten Fransz. van der
Knibbergen, François van
Knijff, Wouter (I)
Kool, Willem Gillisz.
Laeck, Reynier van der
Momper, Frans de
Monogrammist JvC
Neyn, Pieter de
Noorde, Cornelis van
Oudenrogge, Johannes Dircksz. van
Saftleven, Herman
Schalcke, Cornelis Symonsz. van der
Susenier, Abraham
Vijnck, Jan Harmensz.
Vos, Jan de (II)
Voy, Nicolaes de
Zijpe, Abraham van
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Asch, Pieter van
Beest, Sybrand van
Beijeren, Abraham van
Cock, Marten de
Cock, Marten de (1605-1631)
Desfriches, Aignan-Thomas
Dupré, Jules
Hulst, Frans de
Leihamer, Abraham (II)
Lundbye, Johan Thomas
Mulier, Pieter (I)
Overdam, Ab van
Rustige Meester, de
Saftleven, Herman
Schoeff, Johan Pietersz.
Voy, Nicolaes de

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape (genre), marine (genre), river landscape, cityscape, beach scene, winter landscape, architecture (genre), peasant genre

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 53 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 167, 170-172; vol. 2 (1719), p. 110, 235 (as: Jan van Goojen, Jan Josephszoon van Goijen and J. van Gojen)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 7 (1862), p. 327-328 (as: Jan Josephszoon van Goyen)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 1 (1906), p. 607-610
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 14 (1921), p. 460-463
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 8 (1923)
Waller 1938/1974 , p. 117
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 45, passim
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 8 s.a. [1953], p. 160-163
Ladendorf 1965 , p. 111-113 (W. Stechow, 'Über das Verhältnis zwischen Signatur und Chronologie bei einigen holländischen Künstlern des 17. Jahrhunderts')
Bol 1973 , p. 119-132
Ekkart/Wurfbain 1976 , p. 114
Witt Checklist 1978
Sutton/Blankert 1987 , p. 317-332
Van Thiel 1990-1991 , p. 54
Dumas 1991 , p. 507
Schneider/Robinson/Davies 1995 , p. 154-157, 354-357, figs. 1-8 (W. Liedtke, 'Pentimenti in our pictures of Salomon van Ruysdael and of Jan van Goyen')
Giltaij/Kelch 1996 , p. 163-165
Buijsen/Dumas et al. 1998 , p. 139-145 en 308
Saur 1992- , vol. 59 (2008), p. 445
Abrahamse et al. 2008 , p. 82-85 (L. van Oosterzee, 'Van Goyen bij de Overtoom')
Volmert 2013 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

C. Vosmaer, 'Johan Jozefszoon van Goyen', Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 9 (1874), p. 12-20
A. Bredius, 'Jan Josephszoon van Goyen, Nieuwe bijdragen tot zijne biographie', Oud-Holland 14 (1896), p. 113-125
Th. von Frimmel, 'Bemerkungen über den polychromen Frühstil des Jan van Goyen', Blätter für Gemäldekunde 2/4 (1905), p. 71-76
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Jan van Goyen and his followers', Burlington Magazine 42 (1923), p. 4-27
H. P. Bremmer, 'J. van Goyen',+/-1645: Stadje aan de vaart', Maandblad voor beeldende kunsten 16 (1939), p. 40-43
B. J. A. Renckens, 'Jan van Goyen en zijn Noordhollandse leermeester', Oud-Holland 66 (1951), p. 23-34
H.-U. Beck, 'Jan van Goyens Handzeichnungen als Vorzeichnungen', Oud-Holland 72 (1957), p. 241-250
Th. von Oven, 'Jan van Goyen', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 5 (May 1991), p. 32-33
H.-U. Beck, 'The Preliminary Drawing for Jan van Goyen's Views of Nijmegen', Master Drawings 34 (1996), p. 192-194
P. F. Elbers, 'Jan van Goyen in Tuil', Mededelingen van de Historische Kring West-Betuwe 24 (1996), no. 3 (Dec.), p. 3-32
Ch. P. van Eeghen, 'Jan van Goyen's Early Chalk Landscapes from Two Albums', Master Drawings 35 (1997), p. 155-181
R. Falkenburg, 'Onweer bij Jan van Goyen. Artistieke wedijver en de markt voor het Hollandse landschap in de 17de eeuw', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 48 (1997), p. 116-161
H.-U. Beck, 'Doorzagen op Jan van Goyen', Oud Holland 113 (1999), p. 35-44
H.-U. Beck, 'Een addendum: Doorzagen op Jan van Goyen', Oud Holland 113 (1999), p. 227-229
U. Kern, 'Light and shadow, clouds and sunrays: the concept of Reddering in Netherlandish art', Oud Holland 114 (2011), p. 209-230
W.W. Robinson, 'The Abrams Album: An Album Amicorum of Dutch Drawings from the Seventeenth Century', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 3-58

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

In 2012 the RKD received the complete image archive of late Dr. Hans-Ulrich Beck. The Van Goyen images are available at the RKD at BD/0278 (drawings) and BD/0800 (paintings), arranged by catalogue number.

Archive location: archief Le Roy
Project: Gerson Digital : France
Gerson Digital : Germany

External links: this artist in Ecartico
Sluijter/Sluijter-Seijffert 1996/2021

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Creation date: 1991-12-15; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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