Johannes Vollevens II (1685, in

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– 1759, in The Hague), was an 18th-century portrait painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

According to Houbraken he learned to paint from his father,

Johannes Vollevens Johannes Vollevens (1649, Geertruidenberg – 1728, The Hague), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography According to Houbraken he was born in 1654, "the same year that took Fabritius by a stroke of fate",Houbraken made several puns on t ...

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in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

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, courtesy of the

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According to the RKD, in 1713 he became a member, and in 1748, he became deacon of the

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.Johannes Vollevens
in the

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His selfportrait from 1754 is still in their collection (today the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten KABK). His pupils were Arent Schaasberg and Adriana Verbruggen.

References

1710 painting by Johannes Vollevens II
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