John Greenwood - portrait of Tako Hajo Jelgersma RP-P-OB-17

Tako Hajo Jelgersma (October 29, 1702 in Harlingen – March 24, 1795 in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

), was an 18th-century Dutch painter.

Biography

According to the RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis, Jelgersma moved to Haarlem in 1757.Tako Hajo Jelgersma
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He was the pupil of

Frans Decker Frans Decker (1684 – 1751) was an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands. Biography Decker was born in 1684. He was a painter whose pictures possess great merit, and are to be met with in almost every collection. He is stated to h ...

and

Wigerus Vitringa Wigerus Vitringa (October 8, 1657 – January 18, 1725), was a Dutch seascape painter. Biography Vitringa was born in Leeuwarden. According to the RKD he was the son of a prominent lawyer who could financially permit himself a career in the ...

. He painted landscapes, portraits, and copies of old masters. His

grisaille Grisaille ( or ; french: grisaille, lit=greyed , from ''gris'' 'grey') is a painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many g ...

s followed the manner of

Jacob de Wit Jacob de Wit (19 December 1695 – 12 November 1754) was a Dutch artist and interior decorator who painted many religious scenes. Biography Jacob de Wit was born in Amsterdam, and became famous for his door and ceiling paintings. He lived on ...

. His pupils were Johan Bernard Brandhoff, Johannes Petrus van Horstok,

Cornelis van Noorde Cornelis van Noorde (1731 – 1795) was an 18th-century landscape painter and draughtsman from the Northern Netherlands. Biography He was born in 1731, in Haarlem. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was the son of R ...

, Martinus van der Jagt, and Johannes Swertner. He lived to a great age. His pupil Cornelis van Noorde made many engravings after portraits that Jelgersma made. Often these are the only surviving portraits of these people today. File:Haarlem-Regentenkamer-Hofe van Noblet-Jelgersma.jpg, Over the mantel grisaille for the

Hofje van Noblet The Hofje van Noblet is a hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands. History It was built in 1761 from the legacy of Leonard Noblet and his sisters Sara en Geertruida. The houses in the hofje are built in the garden of the house of the Noblet family, ' ...

painted in 1763. File:Tako Hajo Jelgersma 002.jpg, Portrait of Hendrik Fabricius, aged 10, 1748

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jelgersma, Tako Hajo 1702 births 1795 deaths 18th-century Dutch painters 18th-century Dutch male artists Dutch male painters People from Harlingen, Netherlands Frisian painters