Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Baroque
Date and Place of Birth:
October 24, 1607, Leiden
Life:
Perhaps now best known as a contemporary of - and overshadowed by - Rembrandt (the two young artists painted portraits of one another, and may have shared a Leiden studio), Lievens was highly in demand in his day as a portraitist and engraver. Influenced early on by his master, Pieter Lastman, Lievens adopted the Flemish "International" style - a la Anthony van Dyck, whom Lievens met and admired - sometime after 1628. His later years were spent painting commissions and engraving in Amsterdam.
Important Works:
- • Portrait of Constantijn Huygens (c. 1626-27)
- • Samson and Delilah (c. 1630)
- • The Raising of Lazarus (1631)
- • Portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman (1649)
- • Brinio Promoted to General (1661)
Date and Place of Death:
June 4, 1674, Amsterdam
How To Pronounce "Jan Lievens":
yan lee·venz
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