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Jan Lievens (24 October 1607 – 4 June 1674) 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.
Jan Lievens is among the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, he created character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal portraits, and religious and allegorical images that were widely praised and highly valued during his lifetime.
Jan Lievens (24 October 1607 – 4 June 1674) was a Dutch painter, usually associated with Rembrandt, working in a similar style. According to Arnold Houbraken, Jan was the son of Lieven Hendriksze, a tapestry worker (borduurwerker), and was trained by Joris Verschoten.
- Dutch
- October 24, 1607
- Leiden, Netherlands
- June 4, 1674
Jan Lievens was a versatile painter and printmaker whose style derived from both the Dutch and Flemish schools of Baroque art. A contemporary of Rembrandt, he was a pupil of Joris van Schooten (1616–18) and of Rembrandt’s teacher Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam (1618–20).
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Jan Lievens. Lievens (1607-1674) was already an apprentice painter at the age of eight: first in his native Leiden and from 1617 to 1619 under Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. Later, he moved back to Leiden, where he worked together with Rembrandt for over five years. After 1631, Lievens struck out in a different direction; he spent three years in ...
Consider Jan Lievens, born in Leiden in western Holland on October 24, 1607, just 15 months after the birth of Rembrandt van Rijn, another Leiden native. While the two were alive, admirers spoke ...
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Jan Lievens was born in Leiden, where he was trained by Joris van Schooten. He then trained in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman. In the 1620s Lievens was active in Leiden, where he was closely associated with Rembrandt and may even have shared a studio with him.He visited England in the early 1630s and from 1635 worked in Antwerp.
