Jan Pynas

Pynas (1582, Alkmaar – 1631, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

[1] Jan travelled to Italy in 1605 with Pieter Lastman where they spent several years practising art after the great Italian masters.

[2] In Rome he was friends with Adam Elsheimer, Pieter Lastman, and Jacob Ernst Thomann von Hagelstein.

[2] He became the teacher of Bartholomeus Breenberg and Steven van Goor.

[2] The works of the Pynas brothers are close in style to the painter Adam Elsheimer, and there has been a history of mis-attribution between the three, where both of the Pynas brothers are known to have signed their works "J.