Road by the Edge of a Lake Size:medium Wouwermans evolved a personal style

Wouwermans evolved a personal style

Probably painted in the late 1640s

completed in 1575 and published in 1581

convolvulus minor

The broad characterisation and handling of the figures seems to contrast with the delicacy of the landscape detail which has led to suggestions that Andries might be responsible for them

Road by the Edge of a Lake Size:medium Wouwermans evolved a personal styleJan Both was one of the most influential and important of the Dutch Italianate painters, based in Utrecht. He had certainly travelled to Italy, between 1638 and 1641. This picture was probably painted when Both was in Rome. His older brother, Andries (born c. 1612), also a painter, drowned tragically in a Venetian canal in 1642. The broad characterisation and handling of the figures seems to contrast with the delicacy of the landscape detail which has