William goyen biography
Charles William Goyen (April 24, – August 30, ) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher..
Charles William Goyen was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, editor, and teacher.
Windmill along a River
Jan van Goyen1642
Oil on oak, 29.4 x 36.6 cm.
National Gallery, London
VAN GOYEN, Jan Josephsz.
Leiden 1596–The Hague 1656
Van Goyen's exquisite and fragile style of painting seascapes, river scenes and landscapes led him to be neglected for 200 years after his death, when a more finished type of picture was preferred.
Now the situation is reversed: his open skies and lightly suggested trees and buildings are much prized by connoisseurs.
Van Goyen was born in Leiden and spent his early life there, being apprenticed, as was the young Rembrandt a few years later, to Isaac Nicolai van Sweenburgh.
About 1616 he spent a crucial year in nearby Haarlem as a pupil of Esaias van der Velde, and this painter's influence was to remain for the rest of van Goyen's life. He then spent the 1620s back in Leiden and in the early 1630S moved to The Hague.
He must, however, have revisited Haarlem, as in 1634 he was recorded in the house of Isaac va