Jan Zoetelief tromp

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Children playing on the Katwijk beach

Jan Zoetelief Tromp (born December 13, 1872 in Batavia , † September 28, 1947 in Breteuil-sur-Iton ) was a Dutch impressionist painter . He mainly painted genre scenes with children.

Jan Zoetelief Tromp was born in the Dutch East Indies , the son of the civil servant Jan Walle Tromp and Henriëtte Gertrude Zoetelief. He was diagnosed with deafness early on. At the age of three he traveled to the Netherlands with his grandmother Zoetelief. He attended elementary school in a facility for the deaf and dumb in Rotterdam to learn to speak and lip-read. It was not until 1884 that he returned to the Dutch East Indies with his grandmother. There he added the surname “Zoetelief” to his own name as a token of gratitude for what his grandmother did for him. In 1886 the whole family returned to the Netherlands.

From 1887 to 1893 he studied at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague and from 1893 to 1895 at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam with August Allebé .

His work was strongly influenced by Impressionism. He painted almost exclusively adults and children in green landscapes and on beaches.

He married Maria Blommers, a daughter of Bernard Blommers . From 1906 he spent the summer months in the Katwijk artists' colony , from 1919 to 1928 he lived there all year round. He visited Angerlo and Nunspeet in 1919 .

In 1928 Jan Zoetelief Tromp finally moved to Breteuil, a village in the Haute-Normandie region , where his son set up a chicken farm.

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SURNAME Zoetelief Tromp, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoetelief Tromp, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Batavia
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1947
Place of death Breteuil (yours)