Jan Wouwerman (1629 in

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– 1666 in Haarlem), was a

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

painter. According to Houbraken he was the youngest brother of the painters

Philips Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...

and

Pieter Wouwerman Pieter Wouwerman (September 13, 1623 – May 9, 1682) was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter. Biography He was born in Haarlem. According to Arnold Houbraken, a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter Wouwerman was the broth ...

, who lived and worked in Haarlem.Jan Wouwerman Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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His work was relatively unknown when Houbraken was writing, and he assumed this was because he died young, two years before his oldest brother in 1666. Houbraken saw one of his landscapes at the home of

Laurens van der Vinne Laurens Vincentsz van der Vinne (1658–1729) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Van der Vinne was born and died in Haarlem. According to Houbraken, he was the oldest and artistically most gifted son of t ...

, which was a mountainous landscape with a brown foreground, with rough and unclipped trees, while on the horizon a clear view of a valley could be seen. Especially the foreground was cleverly done, a bit loose and with original colors, the way one would have expected of his brother Philips in his younger years when he painted with more monotones than in his later years. According to the RKD he was the youngest brother of Philips Wouwerman who was known for his landscapes in the manner of

Jan Wijnants Jan Jansz Wijnants (alternatively Wynants) (1632 – buried 23 January 1684) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography He was born in Haarlem, the son of a Catholic art dealer also named Jan Wijnants.Jan Wouwerman
in the

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He was buried in the

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of Haarlem. The RKD does not list him as a member, but his name is on the list of 173 members of the

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that

Vincent van der Vinne Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne (1628–1702) was a Dutch Mennonite painter, linen-weaver, and writer. Biography Van der Vinne was born, lived and worked in Haarlem and was a student of Frans Hals for nine months in 1647.

produced in 1702.The list has been published in the book ''De archiefbescheiden van het St. Lukasgilde te Haarlem 1497-1798'', by

Hessel Miedema Hessel Miedema (21 January 1929, Sneek – 14 April 2019) was a leading Dutch art historian and the world authority on Karel van Mander. Biography He was born in Sneek, but grew up in Amsterdam, where he studied art history at the University of Am ...

, 1980,

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