Reinier Vinkeles (1741 – 1816) was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the
Northern Netherlands
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, who was the teacher of several talented artists.
Biography
Vinkeles was born in 1741, in
Amsterdam
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Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, or Lebas (8 July 1707, Paris – 14 April 1783, Paris) was a French engraver, head of the largest engraving workshop in Paris during the 18th century.
Life and work
His father was a wig-maker, and his family was very poor ...
and also met the Dutch artists
Hermanus Numan
Hermanus Numan (1744 – 9 March 1820) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, pastellist, etcher, engraver, watercolorist, set painter, decorator (interiors), art theorist, and publisher.Izaak Jansz de Wit (1744-1809).
When he returned to Amsterdam he worked making prints for book illustrations, including portraits, topographical and architectural prints, copies after Dutch masters, and theatre sets.Reinier Vinkeles in the
RKD
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He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie]and was a member of the artist's club Pax Artium Nutrix. He became the teacher of Jacob Ernst Marcus, Jacobus Millies, his son Abraham Vinkeles, his brother Harmanus Vinkeles (1745-1804), his son Johannes Vinkeles, and Daniël Vrijdag.
Vinkeles died in 1816, in Amsterdam.
Gallery
File:Oih amsterdam.jpg,
Oost-Indisch Huis
The Oost-Indisch Huis (Dutch for "East India House") is an early 17th-century building in the centre of Amsterdam. It was the headquarters of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch East India Company (''Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie'' or VOC) ...
, 1768
File:Rasphuis0.jpg, The
Rasphuis
The Rasphuis was a "tuchthuis" or prison in Amsterdam that was established in 1596 in the former Convent of the Poor Clares on the Heiligeweg. In 1815 it was closed, and in 1892 the building was demolished to make way for a swimming pool. On ...
was a prison and poorhouse in one. Note the prisoner being brought in with handcuffs.
File:Petrus Bertius by Vinkeles 1787.jpg, Petrus Bertius, 1787