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Jan Vermeer van Haarlem, or Jan van der Meer II (1656 – May 28, 1705) was a

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painter from Haarlem. A landscape painter primarily, he was baptized there on November 29, 1656.

Biography

According to the

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he was taught by his father, the landscape painter

Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder (1628, Haarlem – 1691, Haarlem), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and the father of Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Younger. Biography According to the RKD he was the grandson of Janneke Knijff (a ...

and became a follower of

Nicolaes Berchem Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1 October 1620 – 18 February 1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre ...

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He was the brother of the painters

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and Barend, and married the sister of Cornelis Dusart. He seems to have spent some time in Amsterdam but was back in Haarlem in 1681-1683 where he married and joined the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. He is known for italianate landscapes in the manner of his father and Berchem, and signed his works "J v der meer de jonge" (Jan van der Meer the Younger).

References

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