Career
Pynas (1582, Alkmaar – 1631, Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. According to Houbraken January and Jacob Pynas were good at landscapes and figures, but January was better than Jacob. January travelled to Italy in 1605 with Pieter Lastman where they spent several years practising art after the great Italian masters.
January"s sister Meynsge married the artist January Tengnagel in 1611.
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. Pynas."
January died in Amsterdam. Jacob survived him by many years and is thought to have died in Delft.
