Jan Lievens
A Ruined Gateway
About this artwork
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artist:Jan Lievens (1607 - 1674) Dutch
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title:A Ruined Gateway
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Pen and brown ink on paper
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measurements:24.20 x 38.60 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy on loan 1966
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accession number:RSA 92
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Jan Lievens
Jan Lievens
A contemporary and friend of Rembrandt, Lievens trained with the history painter Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam from 1617. In the later 1620s, he was closely associated with Rembrandt, when both were working in Lieden. Both artists, still young at the time, could well have shared a studio, and there...