According to Houbraken Jan and
Jacob Pynas were good at landscapes and figures, but Jan was better than Jacob. Jan travelled to Italy in 1605 with
Pieter Lastman where they spent several years practising art after the great Italian masters. In Rome he was friends with
Adam Elsheimer,
Pieter Lastman, and
Jacob Ernst Thomann von Hagelstein. Jan died in
Amsterdam; Jacob survived him by many years and is thought to have died in
Delft. ==Selected works==