Portret van Ephraim Bonus
Jan Lievens
c. 1640 - c. 1650
Medium
etching
Dimensions
271; 342
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
inscription: ‘Alter Avenzooar grandi sub judice, magnus in medicis, magni discipulus que patris’
About the Artist
Jan Lievens · 1607–1674
Jan Lievens (1607–1674) was born in Leiden and showed exceptional artistic promise from an early age, beginning his training with the local painter Joris van Schooten before traveling to Amsterdam around 1617 to study for two years under Pieter Lastman—the same teacher who would later instruct Rembrandt van Rijn. Lievens and Rembrandt, near-contemporaries born in the same city, subsequently shared...