Johan van Brosterhuysen

Johan (Jan) van Brosterhuysen, also spelled "Brosterhuisen" (ca. 1596 (His birthyear is also given as 1598.) the arts and sciences coterie whose central figure was P. C. Hooft, he was known as a "dilettante" with an interest in natural philosophy (the work of Francis Bacon ) and a classical scholar, and his interest in literature is proven in his scattered poems, one of which a translation of Petrarch's Sonnet 213, "Grazie ch’a pochi il ciel largo destina". He translated from English as well, and his translation of Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moone went through six printings between 1645 and 1700.

Van Brosterhuysen made a number of important friends, including people such as the humanist and theologian Caspar Barlaeus and poet P. C. Hooft, His landscapes display "with a distinctive sensibility towards trees and foliage and few indications of human presence".