Pieter Jansz van Ruyven

Pieter Jansz van Ruyven (1651 – 1719), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken he was a pupil of Jacob Jordaens who became specialized in large decorative pieces for ceilings, and walls. He made the festive triumphal arches for the joyous entry of William III of England in the Hague. He knew the painter Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten as an old man in Del...