See also:JAN JOSEPHSZOON See also:VAN See also:GOYEN (1596-1656)
, Dutch painter, was See also:born at See also:Leiden on the 13th of See also:January 1596, learned See also:painting under several masters at Leiden and See also:Haarlem, married in 1618 and settled at the See also:Hague about 1631
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He was one of the first to emancipate himself from the traditions of See also:minute See also:imitation embodied in the See also:works of See also:Breughel and Savery
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Though he preserved the dun See also:scale of See also:tone See also:peculiar to those painters, he studied atmospheric effects in See also:black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white with considerable skill
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He had much See also:influence on Dutch See also:art
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He formed See also:Solomon See also:Ruysdael and Pieter See also:Potter, forced See also:attention from See also:Rembrandt, and bequeathed some of his precepts to Pieter de Molyn, Coelenbier, Saftleven, See also:van der Kabel and even Berghem
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His See also:life at the Hague for twenty-five years was very prosperous, and he See also:rose in 164o to be See also:president of his gild
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A friend of van Dyck and See also:Bartholomew van der See also:Helst, he sat to both these artists for his likehess
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His daughter See also:Margaret married See also:Jan See also:Steen, and he had steady patrons in the See also:stadtholder See also:Frederick See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, and the chiefs of the See also:municipality of the Hague
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He died at the Hague in 1656, possessed of See also:land and houses to the amount of 15,000 florins
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Between 1610 and 1616 van See also:Goyen wandered from one school' to the other
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He was first apprenticed to Isaak Swanenburgh; he then passed through the workshops of de See also:Man, Klok and de See also:Hoorn
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In 1616 he took a decisive step and joined Esaias van der Velde at Haarlem; amongst his earlier pictures, some of 1621 (See also:Berlin Museum) and 1623 (See also:Brunswick See also:Gallery) show the influence of Esaias very perceptibly
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The landscape is minute
..
Details of branching and foliage are given, and thefigures are important in relation to the distances
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After 1625 these peculiarities gradually disappear
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Atmospheric effect in landscapes of cool tints varying from See also:grey See also:green to See also:pearl or See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown and yellow dun is the See also:principal See also:object which van Goyen holds in view, and he succeeds admirably in See also:light skies with drifting misty See also:cloud, and See also:downs with cottages and scanty shrubbery or stunted trees
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Neglecting all detail of foliage he now works in a thin diluted See also:medium, laying on rubbings as of See also:sepia or See also:Indian See also:ink, and See also:finishing without loss of transparence or lucidity
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Throwing his foreground into darkness, he casts alternate light and shade upon the more distant planes, and realizes most pleasing views of large expanse
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In buildings and See also:water, with See also:shipping near the See also:banks, he sometimes has the strength if not the See also:colour of See also:Albert See also:Cuyp
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The defect of his See also:work is chiefly want of solidity
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But even this had its See also:charm for van Goyen's contemporaries, and some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time elapsed before Cuyp, who imitated him, restricted his method of transparent tinting to the foliage of foreground trees
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Van Goyen's pictures are comparatively rare in See also:English collections, but his work is seen to See also:advantage abroad, and chiefly at the Louvre, and in Berlin, See also:Gotha, See also:Vienna, See also:Munich and See also:Augsburg
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Twenty-eight of his works were exhibited together at Vienna in 1873
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Though he visited See also:France once or twice, van Goyen chiefly confined himself to the scenery of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and the See also:Rhine
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Nine times from 1633 to 1655 he painted views of See also:Dordrecht
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Nimeguen was one of his favourite resorts
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But he was also fond of Haarlem and See also:Amsterdam, and he did not neglect Arnheim or See also:Utrecht
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One of his largest pieces is a view of the Hague, executed in 1651 for the municipality, and now in the See also:town collection of that See also:city
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Most of his panels represent reaches of the Rhine, the Waal and the Maese
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But he sometimes sketched the downs of See also:Scheveningen, or the See also:sea at the mouth of the Rhine and See also:Scheldt; and he liked to depict the See also:calm inshore, and rarely ventured upon seas stirred by more than a See also:curling See also:breeze or the swell of a coming See also:squall
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He often painted See also:winter scenes, with See also:ice and skaters and sledges, in the See also:style See also:familiar to See also:Isaac van See also:Ostade
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There are numerous varieties of these subjects in the See also:master's works from 1621 to 1653
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One See also:historical picture has been assigned to van Goyen—the " Embarkation of See also:Charles II." in the See also:Bute collection
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But this See also:canvas was executed after van Goyen's See also:death
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When he tried this See also:form of art he properly mistrusted his own See also:powers
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But he produced little in See also:partnership with his contemporaries, and we can only except the " Watering-See also:place " in the gallery of Vienna, where the landscape is enlivened with horses and See also:cattle by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip Wouvermans
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Even Jan Steen, who was his son-in-See also:law, only painted figures for one of his pictures, and it is probable that this piece was completed after van Goyen's death
.
More than 250 of van Goyen's pictures are known and accessible
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Of this number little more than 70 are undated
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None exist without the full name or See also:monogram, and yet there is no painter whose See also:hand it• is easier to trace without the help of these adjuncts
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An etcher, but a poor one, van Goyen has only bequeathed to us two very rare plates
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