On this day, 429 years ago, on January 13, 1596 (December 14, 1595 lunar calendar), the Dutch painter Huoyan was born. On January 13, 1596, the Dutch painter Huoyan (JanJosephszoonvanGoyen) was born. Huoyan, JanJosephszoonvanGoyen (1596-1656), Dutch painter. One of the founders of Dutch realist landscape painting in the 17th century. Born in Leiden on January 13, 1596, died in The Hague on April 27, 1656. The heyday of Huoyan's creation in the 1640s. He was the first Dutch painter to successfully capture the subtle changes in light and air and the buoyancy of clouds on the screen. The tone of his paintings is calm and subtle, and the color is extremely restrained, that is, he paints only in brown and gray, and then dyes a few strokes of blue or red where necessary to emphasize the key points. This so-called monochromatic landscape painting is one of the hallmarks of Hoyan's landscape art. Hoyan's work depicted the beauty of nature in the northern Dutch countryside: peaceful rivers, mills with windmills, oak trees with wood growths, vast plains overlooked from a height, low horizons, and cloudy skies. Most of his landscapes appear to be based on his sketches of landscapes, because he apparently reused the same sketch over and over again, so that many of the paintings were often similar in content and composition, becoming various variations of the same subject matter. His most popular subjects include river scenes, sand dunes, and landscapes with ships. His masterpieces include Leiden Landscape (1647), On Ice (1643), etc. Comment: An early Dutch landscape master, his works have strong local colors and are good at using traditional Baroque techniques to describe natural scenery.