 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 944 pages
...among the first painters of Holland. Two large pictures of his with grouped portraits are to be seen in the Hall of the Company of Archers at The Hague ; and in that city and at Antwerp are several portraits of individuals. His portrait picture of his own family... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 1102 pages
...among the first painters of Holland. Two large pictures of his with grouped portraits are to be seen in the Hall of the Company of Archers at The Hague ; and in that city and at Antwerp are several portraits of individuals. His portrait picture of his own family... | |
 | Walker Art Galleries (Minneapolis, Minn.), R. H. Adams - Art - 1927 - 204 pages
...he studied painting, but probably under Frans Hals. Jan became one of the greatest portrait painters of Holland, as is proved by his two large pictures in the hall of the Company of Arches at The Hague and a number of single portraits by him there, at Amsterdam, and elsewhere." No.... | |
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... enrolled among its members, but this may have been his son who bore the same name. He probably began his artistic studies under Frans Hals. His special department was portrait, in which he took rank among the first painters of Holland. Two large pictures... 