Editing Jan van Goyen (section)

==Dutch painting==
[[File:Van Goyen, Paysage fluvial.jpg|thumb|''[[An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry]]'' (1643)]]
Typically, a Dutch painter of the 17th century will fall into one of four categories: a painter of [[portrait]]s, [[Landscape art|landscape]]s, [[still-life]]s, or [[genre]] painting.  Dutch painting was highly specialized and rarely could an artist hope to achieve greatness in more than one area in a lifetime of painting. Jan van Goyen would be classified primarily as a landscape artist with an eye for the genre subjects of everyday life. He painted many of the canals in and around The Hague as well as the villages surrounding the countryside of [[Delft]], [[Rotterdam]], [[Leiden]], and [[Gouda, South Holland|Gouda]]. Other popular Dutch landscape painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth century were
[[Jacob van Ruisdael]], [[Aelbert Cuyp]], [[Hendrick Avercamp]], [[Ludolf Backhuysen]], [[Meindert Hobbema]], [[Aert van der Neer]].