Jan Maurits Quinkhardt, by Reinier Vinkeles

Jan Maurits Quinkhard (28 January 1688 – 11 November 1772) was an 18th-century painter and print designer from the

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Biography

Quinkhard was born in the town of Rees, near

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. He was a Dutch painter and scholar of his father, the painter Julius Quinkhardt the Elder, Arnold van Boonen, Christoffel Lubinietski, and Nikolaas Verkolje. He painted familiar, allegorical, and mythological subjects, and was excellent in portraits, of which he painted a great number. Five good examples are in the

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. His son Julius (1736-1776) was instructed by his father, but abandoned art for commerce. Two pictures by him are in the Amsterdam Museum. He also collaborated with

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and other leading engravers on prints of the rich and famous of Amsterdam.Quinkhard
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Jan Maurits Quinkhard
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His pupils were: * Jurriaan Andriessen * *

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* *, his son * Tibout Regters * *Adriaan Schregardus *

Jan Stolker Jan Stolker (1 July 1724 – 10 June 1785) was a Dutch printmaker, painter, painting dealer, and art collector. Stolker was born in Amsterdam and became a pupil of Jan Maurits Quinkhard.Jan Gerard Waldorp Jan Gerard Waldorp (1740–1808) was a Dutch artist and museum curator. He received all paying visitors to the Nationale Kunst-Galerij in the Hague (1800–1805), one of the forerunners of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Jan Gerard Waldorp was a ...

. He died, aged 84, in

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1688 births 1772 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters People from Rees, Germany {{Netherlands-painter-stub