# LIEVENS, Jan [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1607–1674 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Jan Lievens \(or Lievensz.\), Dutch painter of portraits and religious, allegorical and genre subjects. He was a friend and contemporary of Rembrandt and a pupil of Lastman in Amsterdam. Then shared a studio with Rembrandt in Leiden in the later 1620s: many works of this period show one influencing the other. Lievens went to England, probably in 1632 after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam, but he was in Antwerp by 1635, where he was influenced by the courtly style of Van Dyck. He returned to Holland in 1639 and became a successful painter of portraits and allegories. Raising of Lazarus is a good example of his works. ## Related artworks - [A Tronie]() - [Bearded Old Man with a Brown Cloak]() - [Bust of a Young Girl]() - [Head of an Old Man]() - [Jacob Receiving the Bloody Tunic of Joseph]() - [Old Man in Oriental Garb]() - [Pilate Washing his Hands]() - [Portrait of an Old Man]() - [Portrait of Ephraim Bueno]() - [Portrait of Petrus Egidius de Morrion]() - [Portrait of Poet Jan Vos]() - [Prince Charles Louis with His Tutor, as Alexander Instructed by Aristotle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()