Paul Tétar van Elven
Paul Tétar van Elven (born September 13, 1823 in Antwerp , † February 28, 1896 in Scheveningen ; full name Paul Constantin Dominique Tétar van Elven ) was a Dutch painter and teacher at the Polytechnic School in Delft , the forerunner of the Technical University of Delft .
After training in Amsterdam and The Hague , he mainly made portraits and battle paintings in the style of the old masters . From 1864 to 1894 he lived in the canal house on Koornmarkt in Delft, where he kept his collections from then on and which has housed the Paul Tetar van Elven Museum since 1927 . In addition to his own work, Tetar had amassed an extensive collection of contemporary paintings, furniture, objets d'art, Chinese porcelain as well as Delft faience and ceramics ("Delfts Blauw"), which is historically even more valuable than his own oeuvre .
In 1925 his widow (Mrs. Pitlo-van Duuren, Tétar's second wife) bequeathed the entire collection to a foundation, including the house on Koornmarkt, for the purpose of opening a museum that would bear her husband's name. The museum was opened on June 23, 1927.
In 1859 he patented an ironclad with a periscope .
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| SURNAME | Tétar van Elven, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tétar van Elven, Paul Constantin Dominique (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1896 |
| Place of death | Scheveningen |