LANEN, Jasper van der

(b. ~1585 Antwerpen, d. ~1626 Antwerpen)

Flemish painter, active in Antwerp. He was a pupil of Nicolaas Geerts in 1607 and became master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1615. In 1624 he married Elisabeth Rombouts and the painter Abraham Govaerts was his best man.

Only few works had been accredited with certainty to him, all are inscribed exclusively within the landscape genre, with significant influence from Gillis van Coninxloo, Abraham Govaerts, and the Brueghel family.

Diana and Her Nymph Hunting

The composition of this landscape was used by van der Lanen on many occasions. The figures in the landscape were painted by a different hand.

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Landscape with Bagpipe Player

The landscape painting of Jasper van der Lanen was influenced by Gillis van Coninxloo and Jan Brueghel the Elder. These artists applied a traditional 16th-century formula that divided the landscape into successive planes, differentiated by the colour they received: earth tones and ochres for the first, different tones of green for the middle ground and tones of blue for the last, distant plane or background. They enriched this formula by generating profound visual penetrations going from the foreground to the furthest distance, adding great dynamism to landscape compositions.

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