Christiaan Josi (1768-1828) was a Dutch engraver and art dealer. Josi came from

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, and studied under

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in London. He inherited

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726, in Weesp – 1798, in Amsterdam), was an eighteenth-century Dutch painter and art collector. Biography According to the RKD, he was a pupil of Norbert van Bloemen and Jacobus Buys, and later became a membe ...

's collections and catalogued his Rembrandt etchings. Josi's engraving of a portrait of King

William I of the Netherlands William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange, the King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg. He was the son of the last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, who went ...

is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

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1768 births 1828 deaths Dutch engravers Dutch art dealers {{Netherlands-artist-stub