Jan van Goyen

Van Goyen adopted his mentor’s style both in his drawings and paintings, the latter being colourful views of expansive landscapes and riverscapes. By 1627, however, he had adopted a more restricted colour scheme of ochre, brown and green hues. Van Goyen worked with an economy of means, often using recurring motifs. On his travels through the Northern and Southern Netherlands and across the German border he recorded in his sketchbook many different places, including The Hague, Delft, Arnhem and Nijmegen. Around 1200 paintings and 800 drawings by his hand have survived, a staggering total.