Cornelis Kruseman (; 25 September 1797 – 14 November 1857) was a

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painter, draughtsman, etcher, lithographer, silhouettist, paper-cut artist, and art collector.Cornelis Kruseman

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, 2015. Retrieved on 16 May 2015. His works included portraits, biblical scenes, and depictions of Italian peasant life.

Life

Cornelis Kruseman was born on 25 September 1797 in

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in the Batavian Republic (the present-day

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) as the son of Alexander Hendrik Kruseman (1765–1829) and Cornelia Bötger. From the age of fourteen Cornelis Kruseman attended the Amsterdamse Tekenacademie and received tuition from

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(1764–1837) and Jean Augustin Daiwaille (1786–1850), as well as Petrus Antonius Ravelli (1788–1861). Kruseman continued to live in Amsterdam until he travelled to

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and

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in 1821. He remained in Italy for four years, working with and learning from artists

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. In 1825, after his return to the Netherlands, he settled in

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. In 1826 he published a travel account of his journey to Italy, entitled ''Aanteekeningen van C. Kruseman, betrekkelijk deszelfs kunstreis en verblijf in Italië''. On 3 October 1832 he married Henriette Angelique Meijer. In 1841 he left for Italy again, and remained there until 1848. Thus he is also called the "Italian Kruseman". From 1847 to 1854 he lived in The Hague, and after that in

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until his death. Kruseman died at the age of 60 on 14 November 1857 in Lisse. Some of his many students included his second cousin

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(1804–1862), Herman Frederik Carel ten Kate (1822–1891), Adrianus Johannes Ehnle and

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Painting

Kruseman's oeuvre consists of

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, biblical subjects and Italian scenes. He also painted a self-portrait in 1812, which hangs in the

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in Amsterdam. His painting 'The Legend' is on view in

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in Haarlem. File:Toren bij water.jpg, ''Tower near the water'' (before 1850) File:Winterlandschap.jpg, ''Winterlandscape with people and cows'' (before 1850) File:Moeder&Kind.jpg, ''Mother and child'' (before 1850) File:Interieur.jpg, ''Interior with Sofie and Henriëtte Lotzen and the painter Kruseman, playing the guitar'' (1814) File:Smoking_a_pipe.jpg, ''Man with a pipe'' (1817) File:Constant Gauttier Cathérine François Ising.jpg, ''Portrait of Constant Gauttier Cathérine François Ising'' (before 1850) File:Cornelis Kruseman - Godart Alexander Gerard Philip Baron van der Capellen.jpg, ''Portrait of Godart Alexander Gerard Philip Baron van der Capellen'' ( 1816–1857) File:Hendrik Merkus Baron de Kock by Cornelis Kruseman.jpg, ''Portrait of Hendrik Merkus, Baron de Kock'' ( 1826–1857) File:Johannes van den Bosch.jpeg, ''Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch'' ( 1829) File:De graflegging Rijksmuseum SK-A-1066.jpeg, ''De graflegging'' Rijksmuseum SK-A-1066 ( 1830)

Collections

* Rijksmuseum Amsterdam *

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Collection Cornelis Kruseman
''artmuseum.princeton.edu''. *

Legacy

In 1917, a street, the Cornelis Krusemanstraat, was named after him in

, in 1954 in Eindhoven, and in 1956 in

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. The Krusemanstraat in Ede was also named after Cornelis Kruseman, in 1981. In 1996, Mrs J.M.C. Ising (19 July 1899 – 6 October 1996), a descendant of Johannes Diederik Kruseman (16 March 1794 – 13 January 1861), the brother of Cornelis Kruseman, established the

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''Cornelis Kruseman - J.M.C. Ising Stichting'', the Cornelis Kruseman Stichting for short. The foundation's objective is to gain more recognition for the work of Cornelis Kruseman and his painting relatives.

Honours

* Knight in the

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(

, 1831) * Commander in the

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(

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, 1847)

References

*Westrheene Wz., T. van (1859) "C. Kruseman, zijn leven en werken", ''Kunstkronijk 20 pp. 9–16. *Heteren, M. van, Meere, J. de (1998) ''Fredrik Marinus Kruseman (1816–1882)Painter of pleasing landscapes'', Schiedam: Scriptum, p. 112.
Official Website of the Cornelis Kruseman J.M.C. Ising Foundation

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruseman, Cornelis 1797 births 1857 deaths 19th-century Dutch painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam Dutch portrait painters Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion 19th-century Dutch male artists