Typical of his landscape paintings is Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree (1656; National Gallery, London).

After supposedly training with Nicolaes Berchem,[2] the young Dujardin went to Italy, and joined the Bentvueghels group of painters in Rome, among whom he was known as "Barba di Becco", "goat-beard", or Bokkebaart.

According to Houbraken, while in Lyon in France, he contracted considerable debts, and married his (older) landlady to free himself of them.

[3] According to his friend Johannes Glauber, who he had met previously in Rome, he was painting for a Dutch merchant in Venice when he suddenly became unwell.

Though he was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he was laid to rest in the Catholic manner (wrapped in a white shroud) and was carried to his grave by his friends Govert van der Leeuw and Glauber.