The Seaport Jan van Almeloveen 1670-1683

The Seaport
Jan van Almeloveen 1670-1683
From the collection of
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Details
Title: The Seaport
Creator: Jan van Almeloveen
Date Created: ca. 1670-1683
Set or Series Title: Various Landscapes (Differens Paysages)
Print State: Third state
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
Materials & Techniques: Etching
Keywords: harbors, landscapes (representations), marine views, ports, sailboats
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: One of six “Various Landscapes” (“Differens Paysages”)
Bibliography: Bartsch 21 (vol. 1, p. 285); Hollstein 21 iii (vol. 1, p. 30)
Associated People: Created by Jan van Almeloveen (Dutch, ca. 1652 - after 1683)
Accession Number: 1937.D1.13

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

The Davison Art Center (DAC) holds Wesleyan University's collection of more than 25,000 works of art, chiefly European and American prints and photographs. The DAC collection, which is among the finest print collections at any U.S. university, is used extensively for teaching and learning from objects, scholarly research and publication, and gallery exhibitions open to the public.

Jan van Almeloveen

Jan van Almeloveen was a Dutch painter, engraver, and draughtsman of the 17th century, principally known for some neatly executed etchings of landscapes.
He was born in Mijdrecht, according to an inscription on his 1678 mezzotint portrait 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, 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
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