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Jan van Oolen

Jan van Oolen

Dutch painter


Adriaen, or Jan van Alen (1651–1698) was a Dutch painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was born as the son of the animal painter Jacob van Oolen in Amsterdam, with whom his works are sometimes confused.[1] He became an imitator of Melchior Hondekoeter, and his pictures, like those of that master, represent fowls, landscapes, and still-life.[2]

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Though inferior to Hondekoeter, he painted those objects with great fidelity. He also imitated other masters of the period with so much success that his copies have often passed for originals. He died in Amsterdam.


References

  1. Adriaen van Oolen in the RKD

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



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