Jan (Johan) Philip Koelman (11 March 1818, in
The Hague
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– 10 January 1893, in The Hague) was a
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painter, sculptor, writer and teacher, involved during part of his life in revolutionary activity.
He attended
Cornelis Kruseman
Cornelis Kruseman (; 25 September 1797 – 14 November 1857) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, etcher, lithographer, silhouettist, paper-cut artist, and art collector.[Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff
''Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff (1824 in The Hague – 1882 in Leiden), was a 19th-century Dutch genre painter.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a pupil of the painters Cornelis Kruseman and Huib van Hove who became known for his "Bakke ...](_bla ...<br></span></div>'s studio together with other artists of this period, such as <div class=)
,
David Bles and
Herman ten Kate.
Between 1846 and 1851 Koelman lived in
Rome
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, to where he travelled for artistic purposes, but where he found himself involved in the
revolutionary Roman Republic
The Roman Republic ( la, Res publica Romana ) was a form of government of Rome and the era of the classical Roman civilization when it was run through public representation of the Roman people. Beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Ki ...
of 1849, and eventually joined
Garibaldi
Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi ( , ;In his native Ligurian language, he is known as ''Gioxeppe Gaibado''. In his particular Niçard dialect of Ligurian, he was known as ''Jousé'' or ''Josep''. 4 July 1807 – 2 June 1882) was an Italian general, pat ...
's defence of Rome against the French Army.
Koelman's memoirs of that period are used as source material for historians researching Garibaldi's life and the struggle which eventually led to the
Unification of Italy
The unification of Italy ( it, Unità d'Italia ), also known as the ''Risorgimento'' (, ; ), was the 19th-century political and social movement that resulted in the consolidation of different states of the Italian Peninsula into a single ...
, providing some details not recorded elsewhere.
[J. P. Koelman, "Memorie romane", 2 vols., Rome, 1963; quoted in ]Lucy Riall
Lucy Riall is an Irish historian. She was a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and is currently a professor in the Department of History and Civilisation at the European University Institute in Florence.
Biography
Riall studi ...
, "Garibaldi, Invention of a Hero", Yale University Press, 2007, p. 85-86, p. 500 note 132
Henry Van Ingen
Henry Van Ingen (12 November 1833, The Hague - 17 November 1898, Poughkeepsie, New York) was a Dutch painter who for many years taught art at Vassar College in the United States.
Career
Hendrik van Ingen studied at the Hague Academy of Design fr ...
, professor of art at
Vassar from 1865 to 1898, was Koelman's brother-in-la
References
External links
Jan Philip Koelman, "Portrait of Johannes van Rossum", 1852Profile (in Dutch)
1818 births
1893 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
People of the Italian unification
Artists from The Hague
19th-century Dutch male artists
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