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Jan van Goyen
1656Apr, 27

Jan van Goyen

Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter and illustrator (b. 1596)
Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɑɱ vɑŋ ˈɣoːjə(n)]; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Goyen was an extremely prolific artist; approximately twelve hundred paintings and more than one thousand drawings by him are known.

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