Nationality Netherlands | Name Jan Ravenswaay | |
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Born 1789 Hilversum Died March 2, 1869, Hilversum, Netherlands | ||
Jan van Ravenswaay (1789 – 1869) was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was born in the town of Hilversum
Biography
Ravenswaay was the son of a cotton mill owner in Hilversum. He studied drawing with Jordanus Hoorn in Amstersfoort, before following lessons from Pieter Gerardus van Os. He traveled in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland before becoming a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. He won an honorable mention for a landscape in a competition at Felix Meritis in 1818. In 1832, Jan he became a member of the artist society Arti Sacrum in Rotterdam.
Noteworthy among his pupils were Jacobus Theodorus Abels and Remigius Adrianus Haanen. His niece Adriana van Ravenswaay also became a painter.
References
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