Nationality Dutch Name Louis Meijer | ||
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Full Name Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer Artwork Along the Coast, Seascape | ||
Liebst du um Schönheit, Gustav Mahler, Emma Brown, Han-Louis Meijer
Johan Hendrik Louis Meijer (9 March 1809 – 31 March 1866) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, and draftsman. He painted in the Romantic tradition and is best known for his seascapes.
Meijer was born on 9 March 1809 in Amsterdam in the Kingdom of Holland (the present-day Netherlands).
He studied under Pieter Westenberg and Jan Willem Pieneman, and lived in Deventer, from 1841 in Paris and then in The Hague. Matthijs Maris was a pupil of Meijer's, beginning in 1854.
Meijer died on 31 March 1866, at the age of 57, in Utrecht in the Netherlands.
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