Arie Johannes Lamme, also spelled Ary (27 September 1812,
Dordrecht
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- 25 February 1900,
Berg en Dal) was a Dutch painter, etcher, lithographer, art dealer and museum director. He specialized in
genre
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scenes and historical works.
Biography
His father was the art dealer . He originally studied with his father, then went to
Paris
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at the age of seventeen, where he studied with his cousins,
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and
Hendrik Scheffer
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Personal life
Scheffer was the yo ...
.
[Profile @ the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie.]
In 1845, while in Paris, he won a gold medal for his
interior portraits. Two years later, he and his father worked for the city of
Rotterdam
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, evaluating paintings that had been bequeathed to the city by
Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans, a noted art collector.
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from the ''Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek'' @ DBNL.
Those paintings formed the basis of the collection at the
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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, and Lamme was named the first Director in 1849.
He was also involved in the creation of the
Museum Fodor and became an honorary board member there. In 1863, he compiled a catalog of the Fodor's holdings.
That same year, King
William III named him a
Ridder in the
Order of the Oak Crown
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History
The Order of the Oak Crown was established in 1841 by Grand ...
. In 1870, he resigned his position at Boijmans and was named Honorary Director. He was succeeded by his son, Dirk Arie Lamme and retired to an estate he had purchased in Berg en Dal.
References
External links
Ary Johannes Lamme in: Biografisch Portaal van NetherlandAry Johannes Lamme In: Pieter Scheen: ''Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750–1950.''Arcadja Auctions: More works by Lamme.
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1812 births
1900 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Dutch genre painters
Directors of museums in the Netherlands
Artists from Dordrecht
19th-century Dutch male artists