Jan Hendrik van Grootvelt
Jan Hendrik van Grootvelt (born December 16, 1808 in Varik in the municipality of Neerijnen , Gelderland province , † June 8 or 10, 1855 in 's-Hertogenbosch ,) was a Dutch painter and draftsman.
He was the eldest son of a poor potato farmer who moved with his family to 's-Hertogenbosch around 1815 and became a sergeant in a local battalion in the Dutch army. The young Jan Hendrik did an apprenticeship as a printer and from October 1, 1824, attended the municipal drawing and painting school, which was free for poor children. He received drawing lessons from Antoon van Bedaff and Henricus Turks. After three years, in September 1827, he finished his apprenticeship with a silver medal. He later learned painting, probably with Dominicus Franciscus du Bois .
Despite the Protestant denomination, van Grootvelt created a painting with a religious theme: "Jesus gives Peter the key in the presence of the apostles" and exhibited the painting in 's-Hertogenbosch in 1828. It was probably created on the occasion of the Concordat between Wilhelm Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau and the Vatican .
In the year after his apprenticeship, he exhibited both in the Netherlands and abroad. He exhibited at least 35 times, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague , Groningen , Leeuwarden , Bremen and Lübeck . He also sold his pictures abroad, even to Riga and Moscow .
Jan Hendrik van Grootvelt mostly painted genre scenes in candlelight, sometimes also river landscapes and city pictures.
His students included Hendrik Willem Caspari , Petrus Marius Molijn and Carel Jozeph Grips .
Van Grootvelt was married to Elisabeth van der Kraan and had five children. Only the second child, a daughter, remained alive. He lived with his wife in 's-Hertogenbosch (until 1833), Rotterdam (until 1842), Ravenstein (until 1852) and again in' s-Hertogenbosch.
literature
- Christiaan Kramm: De levens en works of Hollandsche en Vlaamsche kunstschilders, beeldhouwers, graveurs en bouwmeesters. Volume 2, Amsterdam 1858, pp. 610-611 ( digitized version ).
- AJ van der Aa: Biographical woordenboek der Nederlanden . Part 7, 1862, p. 492 ( digitized version ).
- Grootvelt, Jan Hendrik van . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 87 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Pieter A. Scheen: Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, 1750-1880 . 1969, p. 182.
- PMJ Jacobs: Beeldend Nederland: biographical handboek . Stichting Study Center for Beeldende Kunst, Tilburg 1993, ISBN 90-801063-1-3 , Volume 2, p. 610.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grootvelt, Jan Hendrik van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and draftsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1808 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varik in the municipality of Neerijnen , Gelderland province |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 8, 1855 or June 10, 1855 |
| Place of death | 's-Hertogenbosch |