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Liender, Paulus van
(b Utrecht, 25 Sept 1731; d Utrecht, 26 May 1797). Dutch timber merchant, draughtsman, engraver and collector. He made drawings, engravings and watercolours of townscapes, landscapes and buildings. His elder brother Pieter Jan van Liender (1727–79) was also a draughtsman, and he was first taught by his uncle Jacobus (1696–1759). In Amsterdam, where Paulus went to learn the commercial trade, he studied under Cornelis Pronk. There he became friends with a fellow student, Jan de Beyer, with whom he went on a study trip to Germany. Their work was stylistically very similar, and together they created a series of topographical prints, which were included in Het verheerlykt Nederland of kabinet van hedendaagsche gezigten (‘The glorious Netherlands or cabinet of modern views’; Amsterdam, 1745–7). Van Liender also became known for his contributions to other topographical atlases, such as that of the city of Amersfoort (1760). About 1760 he settled in Haarlem and became a timber merchant, and from 1779 to 1794 he worked as a first collector of wine taxes. Increasingly, he favoured drawing the landscape around Haarlem. No paintings by him are known.
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