Jan van Almeloveen (1656 – 1684Jan van Almeloveen
// ECARTICO"Almeloveen, Jan van". ''The Grove Dictionary of Art''. Oxford University Press.) was a Dutch

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, engraver, and

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of the 17th century, principally known for some neatly executed etchings of

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. He was born in

Mijdrecht Mijdrecht is a town in the Netherlands with about 16,000 residents. It is located in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of De Ronde Venen, about west of the main A2 motorway (Netherlands), A2 motorway, between Utrecht (city), Utr ...

, according to an inscription on his 1678

mezzotint Mezzotint is a monochrome printmaking process of the '' intaglio'' family. It was the first printing process that yielded half-tones without using line- or dot-based techniques like hatching, cross-hatching or stipple. Mezzotint achieves tonali ...

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of his father, Johannes ab Almeloveen, a preacher in that city. He made 38 prints in total, all of which are etchings, mostly landscapes, including Dutch villages and rivers. Twenty of his landscape prints are based on the work of Dutch painter

Herman Saftleven Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) ...

, with twelve depicting Dutch villages, and a series of four diamond-shaped prints of the ''Four Seasons''. The other prints were created from his own designs and are less lively in composition. He died sometime after 1683, the year written on his last known print. His ''Landscape with Harvesters'' illustrates the mid-17th-century shift in Dutch landscape art from a fascination with agricultural work that was prevalent in the 16th century, to a recreational interest in the scenery and the pleasures of country life.

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Works by Jan van Almeloveen at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa TongarewaWorks by Jan van Almeloveen at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
1650s births 1680s deaths Dutch engravers Dutch painters Dutch male painters People from De Ronde Venen {{Netherlands-painter-stub