Frederik marinus kruseman a winter scene with skaters on a frozen wate

Fredrik Marinus Kruseman (12 July 1816,

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

- 25 May 1882, Saint-Gilles) was a Dutch painter who specialized in Romantic style landscapes.

Biography

He was the fourth son of Philip Benjamin Kruseman (1781-1842), a

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, and Jacoba Mooij. He received his first drawing lessons from Jan Reekers (1790 - 1858) and attended the

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in Haarlem from 1832 to 1833. That year, he began to study painting with

Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom Nicolaas Johannes Roosenboom (23 August 1805 – 1 March 1880), was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, watercolorist, and illustrator who was specialised in landscape art.

and, in 1835, moved to the

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, where he took advanced studies 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 ...

. He also studied briefly with the landscape painter,

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek Barend Cornelis Koekkoek (October 11, 1803 – April 5, 1862) was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer. Biography Early life: 1803–1824 Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was born on 11 October 1803, in Middelburg, Zeeland. He was the first and el ...

. After a short time back in Haarlem, he went to

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, where he painted landscapes, then returned home in 1839. Two years later, he moved to Brussels where, except for a few months in Paris, he remained until 1852. After four years at home in Haarlem, he went back to Belgium and lived there until his death in 1882. In his output of approximately 300 to 350 paintings, only three

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s are known and the rest are landscapes. He also made a large number of drawings. From 2000 to 2001, his paintings were part of an exhibition at the

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called "Delightful natural scenes: Romantic landscape painters in

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and

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1810-1860".

Sources

* M. van Heteren, J. de Meere, ''Fredrik Marinus Kruseman (1816-1882) Painter of pleasing landscapes'', Schiedam: Scriptum. 1998

External links

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