Hermanus van Brussel, a

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

and etcher, was born at

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in 1763, and died at

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in 1815. Among his best etchings is mentioned a set of twenty-one landscapes with figures.

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johan Bernhard Brandhof, Christiaan Henning and

Wybrand Hendriks Wybrand Hendriks (June 24, 1744, Amsterdam – January 28, 1831, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter, primarily known for his portraits, and the concierge of the Teylers Museum. Biography Wybrand Hendriks was born in a sculptor family, as the son of ...

.Hermanus van Brussel
in the

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He later became the teacher of Woutherus Mol. He was known for his set designs for the Amsterdam Theatre and

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. In Haarlem he was a member of the amateur playhouse society "Kunstliefde" and made many set designs for them. Like many Dutch painters of his time, his works paid great attention to the skies as the land was often relatively featureless.Dickins, Rosie (2003). The Usborne Introduction to Art: Usborne Publishing

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*''Hermanus van Brussel (1763-1815) : biografie en catalogus van zijn prentwerk'', by Bert Sliggers, 1999, Issue 20 of Delineavit et sculpsit Attribution: *
Hermanus van Brussel, by The British Museum
1763 births 1815 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters Artists from Haarlem Dutch engravers Dutch landscape painters Landscape artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub