Vertumnus and Pomona

mythological

The small group categorized as Pre-Rembrandtists includes Pieter Lastman (c. 1583-1633), Jan Pynas (1581/2-1631) and his younger brother Jacob (1592/95-after 1656), their brother-in-law Jan Tengnagel (1584-1635), Lastman's brother-in-law François Venant (1590/91-1636), and Claes Moeyaert (1590/91-1655). Beside Jan Pynas, Jan Tengnagel is the only other member of the group who is recorded as a traveller to Italy; he was there in 1608.

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About the Artist

Jan Tengnagel

1584 – 1635

Dutch painter and draughtsman. He travelled to Rome in 1608 and in 1611 married Meijnsje Simonsdr. Pynas, the sister of Jan and Jacob Pynas. Their son Mattheus Gansneb Tengnagel later made his name as a poet. Jan Tengnagel's only recorded pupil was Laurens Heinrich Hellewich. In 1618 Tengnagel was referred to as a famous painter in Theodore Rodenburgh's poem eulogizing the city of Amsterdam. Before 1619 he was an officer of the Guild of St Luke in Amsterdam, and later he held high office on Amsterdam's governing bodies. He primarily painted biblical and other religious works.

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