Jordanus Hoorn (1753–1833) was a painter and drawing teacher from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Hoorn was born and died in

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. According to the RKD he was the son of a cloth merchant who became a pupil of the landscape painter Gerrit Toorenburgh and who worked in

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1772-1795, including a period as drawing master for the ''Tekenschool voor Kunstambachten''.''Tekenschool voor Kunstambachten'' means ''Drawing school for Art professions'', which was probably a part of the ''Oeconomische Tak'' of the

Dutch Society of Science The Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities), located on the east side of the Spaarne in downtown Haarlem, Netherlands, was established in 1752 and is the oldest society for the scie ...

Jordanus Hoorn
in the

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In 1795 under French rule, he returned to Amersfoort where he was appointed city drawing master. His pupils were

Jan van Ravenswaay Jan van Ravenswaay (28 November 1789, Hilversum - 2 March 1869, Hilversum) was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was born in the town of Hilversum Biography Ravenswaay was the son of a cotton mill owner in Hil ...

, Jan Apeldoorn, and Christiaan Wilhelmus Moorrees.

References

Jordanus Hoorn
on

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