Cornelis van Poelenburgh

He was the leading representative of the first generation of Dutch landscape painters who were active in Rome in the early 17th century.

He was known for small-scale paintings depicting Italianate landscapes with small figures enacting biblical or mythological scenes or in contemporary attire.

[6] Arnold Houbraken claimed that his best pupil was Joan vander Lis from Breda (not Dirck van der Lisse, from The Hague).

[2] He painted mostly small landscapes with mythical or religious figures or passages, in a style that would later be evident in some of the works of Claude Lorraine.

His early work is similar in style to that of Bartholomeus Breenbergh to the point that their paintings are sometimes difficult to tell apart.