Willem de Famars Testas

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Willem de Famars Testas (born August 30, 1834 in Utrecht , † March 24, 1896 in Arnhem ) was a Dutch orientalist painter.

Willem de Famars Testas planned a military career, but decided to become an artist around 1850. He began as a private student of Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den Berg (1802–1861) and studied from 1853 to 1854 at the Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in The Hague . In 1858, Willem de Famars Testas went on a scientific expedition through Egypt with his distant relative, the French scholar Émile Prisse d'Avesnes . This trip, initially planned for only five months, ended with a two-year stay. During this time he visited numerous monuments of Islamic and Egyptian culture, which he recorded in drawings and watercolors.

After his return to Utrecht he became known as an orientalist artist. He became a member of the Utrecht Schilder- en teekengenootschap Kunstliefde.

In 1868 he went on another great journey through Egypt , Palestine and Syria with Jean-Léon Gérôme . After his return he moved to Brussels in 1872 because the fashion for oriental art was there. When the market for these paintings also declined in Belgium, he devoted himself to historical painting. He also created illustrations for various books, including the novels by Jacob van Lennep .

In 1885 De Famars Testas returned to the Netherlands. He died in Arnhem in 1896.

His daughter Marie Madelaine de Famars Testas also became a painter.

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SURNAME Testas, Willem de Famars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch orientalist painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1896
Place of death Arnhem