Jan Pynas

Jan Symonsz. Pynas (1582, Alkmaar – 1631, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Biography According to Houbraken Jan and Jacob Pynas were good at landscapes and figures, but Jan was better than Jacob. Jan travelled to Italy in 1605 with Pieter Lastman where they spent several years practising art after the great Italian masters. In Rome he was friends with Adam Elsheimer, Pieter Lastman, and Jacob Ernst Thomann von Hagelstein.

Jan died in Amsterdam; Jacob survived him by many years and is thought to have died in Delft.

Selected works 1605 – Raising of Lazarus, (Aschaffenburg) 1610 – Moses Turning Water into Blood, (Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam) 1613 – Dismissal of Hagar, (Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen) 1618 – Jacob Being Shown Joseph’s Bloodstained Robe (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg) 1618 – Joseph Selling Corn in Egypt, (London)