Hendrik Meijer (1744–1793) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Meijer was born in

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in 1744, though

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gave his date of birth as 1737. According to the RKD he was first a member of the '' Stadstekenacademie'' in Amsterdam until 1768.Hendrik Meijer
in the

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He moved to Haarlem and started a wallpaper factory there in 1764-1769. He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie in Haarlem in 1769. His pupils were Cornelis Apostool, Jos van den Berg,

Egbert van Drielst Egbert van Drielst (Groningen, 12 March 1745 – Amsterdam, 4 June 1818) began his study of the painting in a factory in Groningen which produced mainly lacquered objects. He soon went to Haarlem, where he became an apprentice in the wallpa ...

, Geerlig Grijpmoed, Dirk Jan van der Laan, Leendert Overbeek, and Barend Hendrik Thier. In 1775 he travelled to London with fellow academy director Wybrand Hendriks. He died in London. He is not to be confused with the earlier landscape painter Hendrick de Meijer of Rotterdam.

References

Hendrick de Meijer
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