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Jan Lievens (1607-1674)

Aliases: Jan (1) Lievens; Jan Lievensz.; Jan Livens; Jan Lyvius; Jan Lyvyus

Professions: Painter; Etcher; Genre Painter; Landscape painter; Historical-scenes painter; Wood cutter

  • JAN LIEVENS LEIDEN 1607 - 1674 AMSTERDAM

  • JAN LIEVENS

  • A vanitas : An old man, half-length, in a fur-lined coat, holding a skull

  • Jan Lievens Leiden 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam , The card players

Jan Lievens Biography

(b Leiden, 24 Oct 1607; d Amsterdam, 4 June 1674). Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker. His work has often suffered by comparison with that of Rembrandt, with whom he was closely associated from 1625 to 1631. Yet Lievens’s early work is equal to that of Rembrandt, although in later years he turned more towards a somewhat facile rendering of the international Baroque style favoured by his noble patrons, thus never fully realizing his early promise. Nonetheless, he became a renowned portrait painter and draughtsman, and his drawings include some of the finest examples of 17th-century Dutch portraiture in the medium.

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  • JAN LIEVENS LEIDEN 1607 - 1674 AMSTERDAM STUDY OF AN OLD MAN, HEAD AND SHOULDERS, Jan Lievens, Click for value View Details
  • 
 Jan Lievens , Leiden 1607 - 1674 Amsterdam Head of an Old Woman ( View Details
  • *Jan Lievens (1607-1674) view of a path in the 'haagse bos,' with beggars at the door of a cottage., Jan Lievens, Click for value View Details
  • Jan Lievens the Elder (Dutch, 1607-1674), View Details
  • A 'tronie' of an old woman in a black furcoat and a purple hood, Jan Lievens, Click for value View Details
  • ATTRIBUTED TO JAN LIEVENS, Jan Lievens, Click for value View Details

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