A Peasant Hut by a Road

between 1608 and 1615

His father sends him to Willem Gerritsz in Hoorn

According to Houbraken, Jan told his father that only oil painting gave him satisfaction, so his father sent him to Willem Gerritsz in Hoorn, with whom he worked for about two years “with diligence and application”.

1610–1615 · Virkested

Leiden

1615–1616

Travel: France

between 1615 and 1618

A year in Esaias van de Velde’s studio

Back from France, van Goyen spent a year in Haarlem in the studio of the landscape painter Esaias van de Velde, who became the key figure in his development. Alexandre Benois also noted the influence of Abraham Bloemaert’s prints and Hercules Segers’s landscapes on the young artist.

late 1620s

One of the creators of the “panoramic style”

In the late 1620s the “panoramic style” took shape in Dutch landscape painting; van Goyen, together with Salomon van Ruysdael and Pieter de Molijn, is regarded as its exponent and one of its creators. His compositions are marked by a low horizon, a high sky and taut diagonals of perspective.

27. april 1656

Died