Jacob Pynas

The brothers Jan Symonsz Pynas (c. 1583, Alkmaar - buried Dec 27 1631, Amsterdam) [ [http://www.rkd.nl/rkddb/dispatcher.aspx?action=search&database=ChoiceArtists&search=priref=65170 Jan Pynas at Netherlands Institute for Art History ] ] and Jacob Symonsz Pynas (c. 1592, Haarlem or Amsterdam - after 1650, Delft?) were Dutch painters of the Baroque period. Their sister Meynsge married the artist Jan Tengnagel in 1611. [ [http://www.artnet.com/library/07/0701/T070173.asp Entry on Pynas Family in the "Grove Dictionary of Art" at www.artnet.com] ] Jacob may have briefly been a teacher of the Dutch master painter, Rembrandt, and the Pynas brothers are both a noted influence on him. [ [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/pynas/jacob/index.html Kren and Marx, Entry on Jan Pynas at the Web Gallery of Art] ] The Pynas brothers were grouped within Dutch artists called the Pre-Rembrandtists.

Their work is close in style to the painter Adam Elsheimer, and there has been a history of mis-attribution between the three, where the Pynas brothers are known to have signed their works "J. Pynas." [ [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/p/pynas/jacob/index.html Kren and Marx, Comments on "Landscape with Mercury and Battus" at the Web Gallery of Art] ]

Selected Works (Jan)

*1605 - "Raising of Lazarus", (Aschaffenburg)
*1610 - "Moses Turning Water into Blood", (Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam)
*1613 - "Dismissal of Hagar", (Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen)
*1618 - "Jacob Being Shown Joseph’s Bloodstained Robe" (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)
*1618 - "Joseph Selling Corn in Egypt", (London)

Selected Works (Jacob)

*1618 - "Mercury and Herse", Oil on Copper, (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
*1618 - "Landscape with Mercury and Battus", Oil on Canvas, (Wiener collection, New York)
*1628 - "Mountain Landscape with Narcissus", Oil on Wood, (National Gallery, London) [http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG6460&collectionPublisherSection=work]
*1600s - "Paul and Barnabas at Lystra, Oil on Wood, (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoom
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*1600s - "Sacrifice of Isaac", Pen, ink and watercolour on paper, (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/e9c6d3fc.html?ixsid=8Vbtpoz7flR]
*1600s - "Sacrifice of Gideon", Watercolour and chalk on paper, (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/e5908e0d.html?ixsid=8Vbtpoz7flR]
*1600s - "Christ and the lawyer", Chalk on paper, (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/de839b32.html?ixsid=8Vbtpoz7flR]
*1600s - "Apollo and Daphne", Pen and Ink on paper, (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) [http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/images/gallery/8fe9f558.html?ixsid=8Vbtpoz7flR]
*1600s - "The Good Samaritan", Oil on Copper, (Louvre, Paris)
*1600s - "The Flight into Egypt", Oil, (Louvre, Paris)
*1600s - "The Canaanite woman kissing the bottom of Jesus's robe", drawing, (Louvre, Paris)
*1600s - "Landscape with Juno, Minerva, Venus, Paris and Cupid", Ink drawing, (Louvre, Paris)

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