Wassenbergh - Allegorie op het goede bestuur (1729)

Jan Abel Wassenbergh (18 January 1689,

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– ca. 20 July 1750, Groningen), was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to Jan van Gool and the

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he first studied law and then took drawing lessons from Jan van Dieren (of whom Van Gool had never heard of). Meeting with success, Wassenbergh travelled to Rotterdam in 1712 where he became a pupil of

Adriaen van der Werff Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant. Life At the ag ...

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Jan van Gool Johan, or Jan van Gool (1685–1763), was a Dutch painter and writer from The Hague, now remembered mainly as a biographer of artists from the Dutch Golden Age. Life Jan van Gool was a pupil of Simon van der Does and Mattheus Terwesten.

's ''Nieuwe Schouburg'', 1750, courtesy of the

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Jan Abel Wassenberg
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He married Johanna van Oijen after returning to Groningen in 1715, and became quite successful as a portraitist, history painter and room decorator (making ceiling, over-the-mantel pieces and doorway decorations for the nobility of the town). Many of his room decorations still survive in their original installations. Their daughter Elisabet Geertruda, and son Jan Jr followed their father, while daughter Gertruida Abelia was good at fruit and flowers.

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