Jan van der Heyden Baroque palace courtyard Painting ID:: 62107 new21/Jan van der Heyden-236636.jpg
Baroque palace courtyard mk278 copper canvas 11.5 x 16.5cm
Jan van der Heyden Square cattle Painting ID:: 62109 new21/Jan van der Heyden-325583.jpg
Square cattle mk278 kapok oil 31.4 x 40.3cm
Jan van der Heyden The crossroads of the forest landscape Painting ID:: 62110 new21/Jan van der Heyden-542585.jpg
The crossroads of the forest landscape mk278 canvas board 44.5 x 55.4cm
Jan van der Heyden Old Palace landscape Painting ID:: 62111 new21/Jan van der Heyden-388372.jpg
Old Palace landscape mk278 canvas board 24 x 29cm
Jan van der Heyden Church of the scenery Painting ID:: 62112 new21/Jan van der Heyden-685799.jpg
Church of the scenery mk278 canvas board 33.5 x 36.3cm
Jan van der Heyden Globe still life of books and other Painting ID:: 62113 new21/Jan van der Heyden-246272.jpg
Globe still life of books and other mk278 Oil on canvas 77 x 63.5cm
Jan van der Heyden Imagine the church and buildings Painting ID:: 62114 new21/Jan van der Heyden-386232.jpg
Imagine the church and buildings mk278 Oil on canvas 37 x 49.5cm
Jan van der Heyden Baroque palaces and the Cathedral Painting ID:: 62115 new21/Jan van der Heyden-598542.jpg
Baroque palaces and the Cathedral mk278 Oil on canvas 20 x 27.5cm
Jan van der Heyden Gothic churches Painting ID:: 62116 new21/Jan van der Heyden-659262.jpg
Gothic churches mk278 Oil on canvas 46 x 60cm
Jan van der Heyden kanal i amsterdam Painting ID:: 67357 new22/Jan van der Heyden-526436.jpg
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Jan van der Heyden Amsterdam, Dam Square with the Town Hall and the Nieuwe Kerk Painting ID:: 83962 new24/Jan van der Heyden-469893.jpg
Amsterdam, Dam Square with the Town Hall and the Nieuwe Kerk Date 1667(1667)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 85 cm (33.5 in). Width: 92 cm (36.2 in).
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Jan van der Heyden View of a Small Town Square Painting ID:: 86599 new25/Jan van der Heyden-898347.jpg
View of a Small Town Square 1660(1660)
Medium Oil on oak panel
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Jan van der Heyden View of Delft Painting ID:: 86610 new25/Jan van der Heyden-797558.jpg
View of Delft Date second half of 17th century
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 55 cm (21.7 in). Width: 71 cm (28 in).
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Jan van der Heyden Street before Haarlem Tower Painting ID:: 86936 new25/Jan van der Heyden-838396.jpg
Street before Haarlem Tower Medium Oil on oak
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Jan van der Heyden The church at Veere Painting ID:: 87211 new25/Jan van der Heyden-499338.jpg
The church at Veere Date 1652 - 1712
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 31.5 x 36 cm (12.4 x 14.2 in)
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Jan van der Heyden Amsterdam Painting ID:: 87813 new25/Jan van der Heyden-883743.jpg
Amsterdam 1667(1667)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Jan van der Heyden Figures Resting and Promenading in an Oak Forest Painting ID:: 91739 new25/Jan van der Heyden-556586.jpg
Figures Resting and Promenading in an Oak Forest Oil on canvas. 28.8 X 33.6 cm.c. 1690-1700
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Jan van der Heyden Wooded landscape Painting ID:: 91911 new25/Jan van der Heyden-973889.jpg
Wooded landscape Oil on panel. 31.9 X 43.4 cm.c. 1660-1670
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Jan van der Heyden Jan van der Heyden Painting ID:: 91975 new25/Jan van der Heyden-739545.jpg
Jan van der Heyden 1652 - 1712
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 31.5 X 36 cm (12.4 X 14.2 in)
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1637-1712
Dutch
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Van der Heyden grew up in Gorcum, but the family moved to Amsterdam around 1650. They lived on Dam Square. As a young guy he witnessed the fire in the old townhall which made a deep impression on him. He later would describe or draw 80 fires in almost any neighborhood of Amsterdam. When he married in 1661 the family was living on Herengracht, the most fashionable canal in Amsterdam. In 1668 Cosimo II de' Medici bought one of his paintings, a view of the townhall with a manipulated perspective. Van der Heyden often painted country estates, like Goudestein, owned by Joan Huydecoper II. He was not good in drawing figures and used for his paintings a metal plate for bricks, a sponge or moss for the leaves. Johannes Lingelbach, Adriaen van de Velde und Eglon van der Neer assisted him drawing the figures. Jan van der Heyden also introduced the lamp post and in 1672 impoved the design of the fire engine. He died in wealth as the superintendent of the lighting and director of the (voluntary) firemen's guild at Amsterdam.
Van der Heyden was a contemporary of the landscape painters Hobbema and Jacob van Ruisdael, with the advantage, which they lacked, of a certain professional versatility; for, whilst they painted admirable pictures and starved, he varied the practice of art with the study of mechanics. Until 1672 he painted in partnership with Adriaen van de Velde. After Adrian's death, and probably because of the loss which that event entailed upon him, he accepted the offices to which allusion has just been made. At no period of artistic activity had the system of division of labour been more fully or more constantly applied to art than it was in Holland towards the close of the 17th century.
Van der Heyden, who was perfect as an architectural draughtsman insofar as he painted the outside of buildings and thoroughly mastered linear perspective, seldom turned his hand to the delineation of anything but brick houses and churches in streets and squares, or rows along canals, or "moated granges," common in his native country.
He was a travelled man, had seen The Hague, Ghent and Brussels, and had ascended the Rhine past Xanten to Cologne, where he copied over and over again the tower and crane of the great cathedral. But he cared nothing for hill or vale, or stream or wood. He could reproduce the rows of bricks in a square of Dutch houses sparkling in the sun, or stunted trees and lines of dwellings varied by steeples, all in light or thrown into passing shadow by moving cloud.
He had the art of painting microscopically without loss of breadth or keeping. But he could draw neither man nor beast, nor ships nor carts; and this was his disadvantage. His good genius under these circumstances was Adrian van der Velde, who enlivened his compositions with spirited figures; and the joint labour of both is a delicate, minute, transparent work, radiant with glow and atmosphere.