6 facts about Jan Wouwerman

Jan Wouwerman (1629 in Haarlem – 1666 in Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he was the youngest brother of the painters Philips and Pieter Wouwerman, who lived and worked in Haarlem. His work was relatively unknown later than Houbraken was writing, and he assumed this was because he died young, two years previously his oldest brother in 1666. Houbraken axiom one of his landscapes at the house of Laurens van der Vinne, which was a mountainous landscape bearing in mind a brown foreground, with scratchy and unclipped trees, while upon the horizon a clear view of a valley could be seen. Especially the foreground was adroitly done, a bit drifting and with indigenous colors, the pretentiousness one would have received of his brother Philips in his younger years in the declare of he painted like more monotones than in his far along years.

According to the RKD he was the youngest brother of Philips Wouwerman who was known for his landscapes like Jan Wijnants. He was buried in the St. Bavochurch of Haarlem. The RKD does not list him as a member, but his declare is upon the list of 173 members of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke that Vincent van der Vinne produced in 1702.