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Pieter Christoffel Wonder (10 January 1780 – 12 July 1852) was a Dutch painter, active in England.
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Pieter Christoffel Wonder (10 January 1780 – 12 July 1852) was a Dutch painter, active in England.
Biography
Wonder was born inUtrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the List of cities in the Netherlands by province, fourth-largest city and a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the Provinces of the Netherlands, pro ...
. He was largely self-taught, by making copies of the Old Masters
In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master")Old Masters De ...
, although between 1802 and 1804 he did attend classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, ...
.Brief notes@ the
Dordrechts Museum
Dordrechts Museum is an art museum in Dordrecht, Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1842 and has a collection of artists of the last 400 years.
Paintings
The museum has works of the following artists:
Gallery
File:Portrait of Cornelis van ...
. In 1807 he established the "" (Love of Art Society) in Utrecht together with other artists including Jan Kobell
Jan Kobell (born Delfshaven, 1779; died Amsterdam, 14 September 1814) was a Dutch animal and landscape painter.
Biography
He was a pupil of Willem Rutgaart van der Wall at Utrecht. He studied diligently from nature, and took Paul Potter for hi ...
, and served as director.
From 1823 to 1831, he worked in England, where he became well known as a portrait painter, but also painted some interior scenes and copies of works by Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...
. Wonder died in 1852 in Amsterdam.
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1780 births 1852 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Dutch portrait painters Artists from Utrecht 19th-century Dutch male artists {{Netherlands-painter-stub