Uma casa de campo no Vliet, perto de Delft
Uma casa de campo no Vliet, perto de Delft, c1660, do pintor holandês Jan van der Heyden (1637 – 1712); um pintor da era barroca, desenhista, gravador e pintor de vidro especializado em townscapes, durante a Idade de Ouro Holandesa.
Esta é uma representação moderna de uma parte da Holanda no século XVII com um canal navegável ou passagem de rio com um caminho de viagem bem cuidado; e como pode ser visto uma quantidade considerável de tráfego de mercadorias ao longo da hidrovia.
Na margem direita do canal estão casas e lotes de terreno que se estendem até as terras baixas recuperadas e férteis., com elegantes quintas que se assemelham àquela que está mais próxima do observador; with its ionic pilasters and dormer windows with scrolls.
On the bank by a small pier there is a large boat with people as a woman receives goods from the merchant of the boat; and farther down the path we see man walking, a dog and off the path to the right a lady and young girl are sitting on the grass near the main house working.
Lining the bank of the river are plenty of short trees, grass and plants; while many larger trees surround the houses in the area.
A Country House on the Vliet near Delft is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Informações abaixo derivadas de Wikipedia.org
Jan van der Heyden was the third of eight children born to Jan Goriszoon who was an oil mill owner, grain merchant, a broker, a Mennonite (membros de certos grupos cristãos pertencentes às comunidades religiosas de denominações anabatistas em homenagem a Menno Simons (1496–1561) da Frísia) e sua esposa Neeltje Jans Munster; em Gorinchem, Holanda em 1637.
Acredita-se que Jan possa ter recebido sua primeira formação artística no ateliê de seu irmão mais velho, Goris van der Heyden, que fabricava e vendia espelhos.; já que ele se juntou ao irmão na produção e venda de negócios.
Pensa-se também que ele pode ter aprendido a desenhar com um pintor de vidro; possivelmente Jacob van der Ulft (1621 – 1689), que não era apenas um pintor de vidro, mas um artista de impressão, arquiteto e prefeito; e é considerado um dos pintores de vidro mais admirados da época (ele também era da cidade natal de Jan).
Embora Jan fosse um pintor talentoso, this part of his career was not the source of his income. His main source of income was as an engineer, inventor and municipal official; and he had a special interest with the problem of fighting fires, most like because of the fire of the old town hall in Amsterdam and later other fires throughout Amsterdams neighborhoods.
A partir de 1668 para 1671 Jan and his brother Nicolaes devoted much time and effort into developing a highly successful water pumping mechanism to address this problem.
He also devised a street lighting system for Amsterdam and in 1669 was appointed as the director of street lighting; então em 1673 Jan and Nicolaes received official appointments to manage the city’s fire-fighting equipment and organisation.
These two appointments were enough to ensure the long term prosperity of Jan; e 7 years later he moved with his family from Amsterdam to Koestraat near the St. Anthonismarkt, where he built a family home and factory for producing fire equipment.
Dentro 1690 in collaboration with his eldest son Jan published an illustrated book on fire fighting; entitled “Beschrijving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slangbrandspuiten” ou “Description of the recently invented and patented hose fire engines”.
Upon his death at the age of 75, with his wife following a month later, Jan estate included more than 70 of his own paintings and it is believed that his only artistic pupil was his son of the same name, Jan.