On January 13, 1596, the Dutch painter Jan Josephszoon van Goyen was born.

Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (1596¨C1656), Dutch painter, one of the founders of 17th-century Dutch realistic landscape painting, was born in Leiden on 13 January 1596 and died in The Hague on 27 April 1656. In the 17th and 40s, he was the greatest painter in the Dutch painting. He was the first to capture the fine changes in light and air and the floating sense of clouds on the painting. His painting depicts the beauty of northern Dutch countryside: the peaceful flow of the river, the windmills of the windmills, the transformation of the timber trees, and a large number of paintings from the heights (such as the monochromatic landscape, one of the symbols of the Dutch landscape painting, which

Comment: He is an early landscape master in the Netherlands. His works have a strong local color, and he is good at using traditional Baroque techniques to depict natural scenery.