Jan Coelenbier

Jan Coelenbier (1610, Kortrijk – 1680, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.

River scene with sailboats, a rowboat, ovens, windmills, houses, and fishermen, 1646

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Pieter de Molijn and became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke in 1632.^[1] He married in 1638 and is mentioned in archives as a merchant in 1675 and 1676.^[1] He is known for landscapes in the manner of Jan van Goyen.^[1]

He was listed as coming from Utrecht and being a pupil of Van Goyen, "whose works he imitated so closely that they passed for the originals", in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.

Notes

1. Jan Coelenbier in the RKD

References

• Jan Coelenbier on Artnet

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Coelenbier, Jan". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.