Jan Weissenbruch (1822,

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– 1880,

) was a 19th-century Dutch painter.

Biography

According to the RKD he was the cousin of

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and the older brother of the painters Isaac and Frederik Hendrik and like them studied at the

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in The Hague.Jan Weissenbruch
in the

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In 1846 he spent a year at the Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. He was a pupil of Isaac Cornelis Elink Sterk, Georg Christiaan Heinrich Hessler, Cornelis Steffelaar,

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, and

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. He is known as one of the founders of the

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and made watercolors, etchings and woodcuts as well as paintings, mostly of cityscapes and church interiors. In 1857 he won his first golden medal at an exhibition in the Hague. In the late 1860s he began to restore paintings, possibly because he suffered from

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, which hindered him in the last decade of his life.

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was his pupil. WeissenbruchGoilberdingerpoortCulemborg.jpg, ''De Goilberdingerpoort in Culemborg, gezien vanuit het zuiden'' De oude haven met de Bottelpoort in Nijmegen, 1850 door Jan Weissenbruch.jpg, ''De oude haven met de Bottelpoort in Nijmegen'' (Museum Het Valkhof) By the Lek at Elshout.jpg, ''Aan de Lek bij Elshout'' (Teylers Museum) File:WLANL - 23dingenvoormusea - Woudrichem.jpg, Market at Woudrichem, c. 1850 File:Jan Weissenbruch 001.jpg, View of the Mariakerk in Utrecht, 1862–64

References

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