Lot Essay
The third son of the painter Paulus Joostens Wouwerman of Alkmaar (d. 1642), Jan likely trained with his eldest brother, the celebrated Philips Wouwerman. As the present work reveals, like his brother, Jan excelled at landscape painting. Jan Wouwerman was profoundly influenced by Jan Wynants, with whom he is also thought to have trained. In fact, Wynants' impact on the painter was so great that many of Jan Wouwerman's paintings have been mistakenly attributed to Wynants in the past.