Valentijn Bing (22 April 1812,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

- 28 January 1895, Nieuwpoort) was a Dutch painter, illustrator, and

lithographer Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

. His works included

genre Genre () is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed-upon conventions developed over time. In popular usage, it normally describes a category of literature, music, or other for ...

scenes, religious art, portraits, and

cityscape In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, Publishing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. ''Town ...

Life and work

He was the son of Andreas Christoph Bing, a merchant, and his English wife, Mary Ann née Barton. After completing secondary school, he studied at the , where his primary instructor was

Jan Adam Kruseman Jan Adam Kruseman (12 February 1804, Haarlem - 17 March 1862, Haarlem) was a Dutch painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also did landscapes and genre scenes. Biography He was born to a prominent family that would produce sever ...

. He made his entry into the art world by participating in the Exhibition of Living Masters. In 1839, he became a member of Arti et Amicitiae. From 1843, he was a teacher at the Akademie. For his 25th anniversary, in 1868, he was awarded a silver medal by , Director of the Akademie's engraving school. His most familiar students include Jacques Carabain, , Jan Portielje, and Marie Wandscheer. Together with his fellow lithographer, , he wrote and illustrated ''Nederlandsche kleederdragten, naar de natuur geteekend'' (1857), on the traditional costumes of the Netherlands. They also produced two instructional books on drawing, in 1863 and 1866.Wiebe Keikes
"Naar de natuur getekend in 1857"
In: ''Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode'', 5 July 1990. He remained unmarried and lived with his sisters in Amsterdam, until he was fifty-one. That year, he married Antonia Johanna Heiligers (1835-1897), from

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, who was thirteen years his junior. They had several children. In 1891, they moved to Bleskensgraaf, but stayed there for only a short time, then moved to Nieuwpoort, where he died, aged eighty-two.

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