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. After 1644 he was chiefly in Amsterdam (where he died) and The Hague. Lievens was a portrait, figure and landscape painter.
Jan Lievens
1607 - 1674
Paintings by Jan Lievens
This moody and evocative landscape is more than just a simple pastoral scene. The presence of the angel and the youth in the foreground is a clear sign that it represents the story of Tobias, from the Book of Tobit.Tobit, who was blind, asked his son Tobias to go on a journey to collect a debt. H...
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Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678) was one of the most important thinkers of her day and the first woman in the Netherlands to attend university. She was well known in European intellectual circles, and was an accomplished artist, poet and linguist, as well as a passionate advocate of women’s ri...
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There is a swagger, even an arrogance, in the bearing of this man who meets our eye so directly and seems so at ease with himself. This is a self portrait, and going by what his contemporaries said about the artist – Jan Lievens – we shouldn’t be surprised at his self-confident air. An English am...
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