Adriaan de Lelie - Zelfportret - SA 40956 - Amsterdam Museum

Adriaan de Lelie (19 May 1755 – 30 November 1820)Lelie, Adriaan de
in the

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was a Dutch painter. He was born in

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. De Lelie was a pupil of A. Peeters, a painter of tapestries and ornaments, and afterwards of

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in Antwerp. He made copies of many portraits by

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and

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, and also of historical pictures by Italian and Dutch masters. On the advice of Professor Camper, he established himself in Amsterdam. He painted a great number of portraits and cabinet pictures. The latter includes one of the celebrated art lover Jan Gildemeester in the act of showing his collection to a party of ladies and gentlemen. One of his best works is that of the 'Drawing Academy' of the Felix Meritis Society in Amsterdam. His pictures are highly esteemed in the Netherlands and Germany, where they can be found in distinguished collections. His pupils were

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, Jan Adriaan Antonie de Lelie, François Montauban van Swijndregt, Pièrre Recco, Izaak Riewert Schmidt, and Johannes Ziesenis. He died in

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. File:Adriaan de Lelie 001.jpg, '' The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz'', 1794–1795,

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File:De beeldenzaal van de Maatschappij Felix Meritis Rijksmuseum SK-C-537.jpg, ''In the sculpture gallery of the Felix Meritis Society'', 1806–1809,

File:Adriaan de Lelie - Voordracht over de anatomie door Andreas Bonn voor het departement der Tekenkunde van Felix Meritis (1792).jpg, '' lectures the Drawing Academy of the Felix Meritis Society'', 1792,

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File:Adriaan de Lelie, De familie van Jan van Loon, 1786.jpg, ''The family of Jan van Loon,'' 1786, Museum Van Loon File:Portret van de familie van Adriaan Bonebakker met Dirk L. Bennewitz, Adriaan de Lelie, 1809.jpg, ''The family of Adrianus Bonebakker during a visit from - in all probability - partner Diederik Lodewijk Bennewitz (seated, with the silver object). Bonebakker himself can be seen holding a document,'' 1809,

File:WLANL - Quistnix! - Visserijmuseum - Voorbereidingen voor de verkoop van de nieuwe haring, Adriaan de Lelie en Willem van Leen, 1815.jpg, ''Preparing for the sale of the new herring'', by de Lelie and Willem van Leen, 1815, in the Visserijmuseum in

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File:Jonkheer Gijsbert Carel Rutger Reinier van Brienen van Ramerus (1771-1821), met zijn vrouw en vier van hun kinderen, SK-A-1355.jpg, ''The family of Van Brienen van Ramerus'', 1804 File:WLANL - karinvogt - Adriaan de Lelie, meisje met brief.jpg, ''A girl with a letter'' File:Portret van Jan Nieuwenhuyzen Rijksmuseum SK-A-2856.jpeg, '' Jan Nieuwenhuyzen'', in the Edams Museum in Edam File:Adriaan de Lelie 002.jpg, ''Wilhelmina Maria Haack,'' 1814-1820

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Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lelie, Adriaan de 1755 births 1820 deaths Dutch painters Dutch male painters People from Tilburg Painters from North Brabant