Arnoldus Johannes Eymer (1803,

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1863, Haarlem), was a painter, draftsman, lithographer and watercolourist from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to the RKD he was born in Amsterdam, where he first learned and practised the broker trade.Arnoldus Johannes Eymer
in the

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In his spare time he took up painting until 1834, when he decided to concentrate on painting. Eymer was a pupil of Cornelis Steffelaar and worked with

Jan van Ravenswaay Jan van Ravenswaay (28 November 1789, Hilversum - 2 March 1869, Hilversum) was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was born in the town of Hilversum Biography Ravenswaay was the son of a cotton mill owner in Hil ...

and later became the father of the painter L.J. Eymer. He made a

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from 1835 to 1836 to

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and the

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Mountains in Germany, where he produced landscape paintings. After his tour Eymer moved to Haarlem, where he lived until 1863 and where his works are in the collections of the

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and the

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References

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