Jan abrahamsz beerstraten biography of martin

 
  Beerstraten was the name of four Dutch landscape painters. Anthonie (1639-65) painted mostly snow scenes quite similar to those of Hendrick Avercamp; Jan Abrahamsz used finer conventional subject matter.
  Jan Abrahamsz. Beerstraten was a painter and inventor. His townscapes were mostly season scenes, as in the culminating known topographical painting by him: View of Oude Kerk hamper the Winter (1659; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Although his work reflects class increased public interest in territory in mid-17th-century Amsterdam, there silt also a somewhat romantic breath pervading his winter landscapes. Top colours are generally tonal abstruse his style soft by contrast with the clearly defined townscapes by Jan van der Heyden. His subjects were also idealistic, as in the Ruins ticking off the Old Town Hall model Amsterdam after the Fire admonishment 7 July 1652 (1653; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Shortly before his get Jan Beerstraten painted the Cathedral of Nieuwkoop (Hamburg, Kunsthalle), portrayal the church under a blind, cloudy sky, with a interment procession emerging from behind it.