Wybrand Hendriks
Wybrand Hendriks (born June 24, 1744 in Amsterdam , † January 28, 1831 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch painter and curator of the Teylers Museum in Haarlem.
Wybrand Hendriks was born into a family of sculptors as the son of the sculptor Hendrik Hendriksz (approx. 1704–1782) and his wife Aaltje Claasdr. Both of his brothers (Hendrik the Younger and Frans) also became sculptors. His only sister, Cornelia, married the sculptor Rijk Rijke.
Wybrand Hendriks learned the painting trade while working in Johannes Remmers' wallpaper factory in Amsterdam. In 1772 he bought a wallpaper company from Anthony Palthe. In 1775 he married Palthe's widow Agatha Ketel. In the same year he visited England and Belgium .
In the 1780s he was one of the directors of the Haarlem Drawing Academy for five years. From 1786 to 1819 he was curator of the Teyler Foundation in Haarlem and lived in the "Fundatiehuis".
Wybrand Hendricks took care of the enrichment of the museum collections. In 1790 he acquired an important collection of 1700 Italian drawings from the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden ( Odescalchi Collection ) with works by Michelangelo and Raffael .
After the death of his wife Agatha Ketel in 1802, she married Geertruid Harmsen in 1806, who died in 1817. Two years later he moved to a house on the Oude Gracht, where he died in 1831 at the age of 86.
He mainly created portraits, u. a. by the doctor and scientist Martinus van Marum , as well as landscapes and still lifes.
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| SURNAME | Hendriks, Wybrand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 24, 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1831 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |