Jan Adam Kruseman

Jan Adam Kruseman (12 February 1804 – 17 March 1862) was a Dutch painter, known primarily for his portraits, although he also did landscapes and genre scenes.

Biography

Kruseman was born in Haarlem to a prominent family that would produce several well-known artists. In 1819, at the age of fifteen, he went to Amsterdam and enrolled at the Tekenacademie, where he received his first lessons from his cousin, Cornelis Kruseman and Jacques-Louis David.Biographical notes
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At the age of twenty-six, in 1830, he became Director of the Academy of Fine Arts (precursor to the Rijksakademie).Profile from the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, Three years later, after doing a portrait of Adriaan van der Hoop, a banker with connections to the royal family, he received a commission to paint a posthumous portrait of Tsar Alexander I, intended as a gift for Anna Pavlovna, who was married to Crown Prince William. After William ascended to the throne, Kruseman was commissioned to paint official portraits of the royal family, including six of the King.

In 1839, along with the engraver André-Benoit Taurel (1794–1859) and Marinus Tétar van Elven (1803–1883), an architect, he became one of the founders of Arti et Amicitiae. In 1844, he was named a Ridder in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. He was married in 1826 and had seven children, including Jan Theodoor Kruseman, who became a noted landscape painter. In 1836, his nephew, the future theologian and poet Petrus Augustus de Génestet, came to live with his family after being orphaned.

He created over 500 portraits, mostly of the nobility and wealthy burghers. His portraits are notable for their lack of idealization and attention to the details of clothing. He had numerous successful students; among the best-known were David Bles, Moritz Calisch and Jozef Israëls.

Kruseman died in Haarlem in 1862. After his death, he was largely forgotten although, in the 1960s, a street in Rosmalen was named after him. From 2002 to 2003, a major retrospective was held at the Het Loo Palace and, in 2015, an exhibition featuring all the artists of the extended Kruseman family was held at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar.

Selected works

File:Portrait of Giovanni Belzoni by Jan Adam Kruseman, 1824.jpg, '' The Great Belzoni'', 1824
File:Jan Adam Kruseman - Portrait of a Lady - Google Art Project.jpg, Portrait of a Lady
File:The wise and the foolish virgin, by Jan Adam Kruseman.jpg, The wise and the foolish virgin
File:Ada van Holland in exil.jpg, Ada, Countess of Holland in Exile
File:Regenten en regentessen van het leprozenhuis te Amsterdam, 1834-35 Rijksmuseum SK-C-1123.jpeg, Regents of the Amsterdam
Leper Colony
File:Jan Adam Kruseman William II King of the Netherlands 1840.jpg, King William II
File:Anna Pavlovna as widow by J.B. van der Hulst (1852).jpg, Anna Pavlovna as a widow
File:Jan Adam Kruseman - Portret van Maria Cremer en haar zoon Mr. Isaac Lambertus van den Bergh van Heemstede - 1966.10 - Museum Het Valkhof.jpg, Double portrait of Isaac Lambertus van den Berch and Maria Cremer
File:Rustend meisje Rijksmuseum SK-A-1072.jpeg, Resting girl
File:Jan Adam Kruseman - Salomé met het hoofd van Johannes de Doper 001.JPG, Salome with the head of St John the Baptist

References

Further reading

* J.G. Kam, "Jan Adam Kruseman Jzn. en zijn catalogus van portretten", in the ''Jaarboek Amstelodamum'' #52, 1960
* Anne-Dirk Renting and Esther Lipke-Deetman (Eds.), ''Jan Adam Kruseman 1804–1862, Tentoonstellingscatalogus'', (exhibition catalog) G.J. Thieme/Inco Hippo, 2002

External links

ArtNet: More works by Kruseman.

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1804 births
1862 deaths
19th-century Dutch painters
Dutch male painters
Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
Dutch portrait painters
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Painters from Haarlem