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    Jan Lievens
    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 Jan Lievens
    Leiden, training with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam, where they shared a studio for about five years until 1631.
    Like Rembrandt he painted both portraits and history paintings, but unlike him Lievens' career took him away
    from Amsterdam to London, Antwerp, The Hague and Berlin.

    Contents
    Biography
    Public Collections
    References
    Notes
    Sources
    External links
    Self portrait

    Biography Born Jan Lievens


    24 October 1607
    According to Arnold Houbraken, Jan was the son of Lieven Hendriksze, a Leiden, Dutch Republic
    tapestry worker (borduurwerker), and was trained by Joris Verschoten. He Died 4 June 1674 (aged 66)
    was sent to Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam at about the age of 10 for two full Amsterdam, Dutch
    years. After that he began his career as an independent artist, at about the Republic
    age of 12 in Leiden.[1] He became something of a celebrity because of his
    talent at such a young age. Specifically, his copy of Democriet & Herakliet Nationality Netherlands
    by Cornelis van Haarlem (illustration), and a portrait of his mother Education Pieter Lastman
    Machtelt Jans van Noortzant, were admired. This attracted the attention of
    Known for Portrait painting
    Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, around 1620, who bought a life-size
    painting of a young man reading by the light of a turf-fire. He gave this
    painting in turn to the English Ambassador, who presented it to James I. This was the reason why in 1631, when
    Lievens was 24, he was invited to the British court.[1] Houbraken appears to have taken this account directly
    from Jan Orlers' Beschrijvinge der Stad Leyden (1641) which gives a life of Jan Lievens in pages 375-7 including
    these details.[2] However a painting by Lievens in the Getty Museum of Prince Charles Louis and his Tutor
    A young girl which must have been painted in Leiden is clearly signed and dated 1631, so the exact timing of his trip to
    England is open to doubt.[3]

    When he returned from England via Calais, he settled in Antwerp, where he married Suzanna Colyn de Nole, the daughter of the sculptor Michiel
    Colyns, on 23 December 1638.[4] In this period he won many commissions from royalty, mayors, and city halls. According to Houbraken, a
    Continence of Scipio was painted for the Leiden city hall.[1] A poem by Joost van den Vondel was written in honor of a painting (a schoorsteenstuk,
    or over the mantel piece) he made for the mayor's office of the Amsterdam city hall (now the Royal Palace of Amsterdam) in 1661.[1] According to
    the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, this piece survives and depicts Brinno raised on a shield with the Cananefates, after a similar painting by Otto
    van Veen in 1613.[5]

    Lievens collaborated and shared a studio with Rembrandt van Rijn from about 1626 to 1631. Their
    competitive collaboration, represented in some two dozen paintings, drawings and etchings,[6] was
    intimate enough to cause difficulties in the attribution of works from this period. Lievens showed
    talent for painting in a life-size scale, and his dramatic compositions suggest the influence of the
    Caravaggisti. In Constantijn Huygens' assessment, Lievens was more inventive, yet less expressive
    than Rembrandt.[7] The two men split in 1631, when Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam and Lievens
    to England. In 1656 Rembrandt still owned paintings by his former friend.

    During his time in England Lievens painted a portrait for Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, and
    became influenced by the works of Anthony van Dyck. Lievens worked in Antwerp, and cooperated
    with Adriaen Brouwer. After being a court painter in The Hague and Berlin, he returned to
    Amsterdam in 1655. After his first wife died he married a sister of Jan de Bray in 1648. After 1672,
    the Rampjaar Lievens had increasing financial difficulties and his family voided all claims of
    inheritance on his death due to his debts.

    Public Collections
    Agnes Etherington Art Centre Jan Lievens's painting of Allegory of Peace. The
    Amsterdam Museum sitting female allegory of Peace is being crowned
    by a woman in armor, while trampling the allegory
    Mauritshuis, Den Haag
    of War under her feet. 1654
    Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
    Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
    Rijksmuseum Amsterdam[8]
    The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
    Utah Museum of Fine Arts
    A portrait of Virgil attributed to Lievens is displayed at the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana.

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    Democriet (laughing) & The Feast of Esther, North


    Herakliet (crying) by Cornelis Carolina Museum of Art.
    van Haarlem, which Lievens
    copied at 12. (The copy is lost)

    Jan Lievens' painting of King Saladin holding King


    Guy de Lusignan captive. As an example of
    cross-influence by masters of their time, this
    artpiece by Jan Lievens depicts a fragment of the
    Adoration of the Magi by Peter Paul Rubens in a
    totally different setting. 1625

    The Violin Player Magdalena in meditation Musée


    de la Chartreuse de Douai

    References

    Notes
    1. (in Dutch) Jan Lievensz. biography (http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0
    145.htm) in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold
    Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
    2. https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/orlers1641
    3. http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/597/jan-lievens-prince-charles-louis-of-the-palatinate-with-his-
    tutor-wolrad-von-plessen-in-historical-dress-dutch-1631/
    4. Jan Lievens (https://archive.is/20150115030333/https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/50003) in the RKD
    5. Brinio op het schild geheven (http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/RIJK01:SK-A-423)
    Painting by Otto van Veen
    6. Mariet Westermann, Rembrandt 2000:39.
    Still Life with Books
    7. "Jan Lievens (Getty Museum)" (https://web.archive.org/web/20120905021918/http://www.getty.edu/art/g
    ettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=225). Getty.edu. 2009-05-07. Archived from the original (http://www.g
    etty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=225) on 2012-09-05. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
    8. Collection Rijksmuseum (https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/search?p=1&ps=12&maker=Jan+Lievens)

    Sources
    Haak, Bob (1969). Rembrandt: His Life, His Work, His Time (https://archive.org/details/rembrandthislife00haak). trans. from the Dutch by
    Elizabeth Willems-Treeman. New York: Harry N. Abrams. pp. 42–43 (https://archive.org/details/rembrandthislife00haak/page/42).
    LCCN 69012481 (https://lccn.loc.gov/69012481).

    External links
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    Getty Museum (https://web.archive.org/web/20051119074013/http://getty.edu/art/collections/bio/a225-1.html)


    Works (https://web.archive.org/web/20100918003232/http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/jan_lievens_rediscovered/jl_mam_09_0
    1.htm)
    Lievens at WGA (http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/l/lievens/)
    National Gallery of Art Jan Lievens Exhibit (https://web.archive.org/web/20081031133124/http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/lievensinfo.shtm)
    Milwaukee Art Museum, Jan Lievens: Out of Rembrandt’s Shadow, Exhibit (http://www.mam.org/lievens/)
    A Dutch Master Rediscovered (https://web.archive.org/web/20140725162033/http://www.artwis.com/articles/a-dutch-master-rediscovered/)
    Works and literature on Jan Lievens (http://www.pubhist.com/person/125/jan-lievens)

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