Winter Landscape with Figures on Ice

Jan Josephsz. van Goyen is considered to be one of the leading 17th-century Dutch landscape painters. Among his teachers was Esaias van der Velde in whose Haarlem workshop he spent around one year. Van der Velde’s style is evident in Van Goyen’s early work and in the subject matter of some of his views, particularly those related to the seasons. Van Goyen was also one of the leading exponents of t…