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Jan Lievens Biography

Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker
born 1607 - died 1674

Also known as: Jan Lievens de Oude, Jan Lievens d'oude, Jan Leevens, Jan Leevins, Jan Leyvens, Sr. J. Lieuwenzi, Jan Lieuwesz, Jan Lieven, Jan, I Lievens, Jan Lievensz, Jan Lievents, Jan Lievesse, Jan Livens.

Worked with: Jacob van Campen (1595-1657).

Jan Lievens was born in Leyden and it was there that he served his first apprenticeship. Later moved to Amsterdam where he became a pupil of Pieter Lastman and it was there that he became very close friends with Rembrandt. Jan Lievens artist was a precocious youth and quickly became known as a master painter and etcher.

Lievens shared the painting studio with the slightly older Rembrandt between 1625 and 1631. The two artists often collaborated on the same picture: the Portrait of a Child (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) is signed "Lievens retouched by Rembrandt". Rembrandt also painted the image of his close friend into several of Jan Lievens paintings, most notably Young Christ in the Temple.
The early Jan Lievens paintings of both artists exhibit similar attention to details, Caravagesque dark tones, and dramatic mood. For example, the very theatrical Lievens work titled The Raising of Lazarus, dated 1631 and presently located in the Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton. The attribution of paintings from their joint studio period has often presented a problem to scholars, and there were many false attributions to Rembrandt of works that were actually painted by Jan Lievens painter.

The Secretary of Prince Frederick Henry, Constantin Huygens, was a patron of both Rembrandt and he. Huygens regarded both artists as equals during this 6 year period of time. However, Huygens considered Rembrandt to be more emotionally expressive and Lievens superior in inventiveness and boldness.

He tended to paint on a larger scale than Rembrandt, often Jan Lievens paintings are life size. His early pictures are genre scenes, religious subjects, and portraits. He travelled to England in 1632 and stayed for two years, During this time the artist was reputed to have painted the Royal Family, however this Jan Lievens painting is unknown today.
In 1634 he returned to Amsterdam and his style was greatly changed. His portraits were now strongly influenced by the courtly style of Sir Anthony van Dyck. His landscapes show his study of both Rubens and Brouwer.
Until his death, he lived primarily in Amsterdam, where Jan Lievens artist was a very popular portraitist and successful painter of large-scale historical and allegorical subjects (for example, Jan Lievens paintings from 1656 and 1661 for the new Amsterdam Town Hall.)