Martinus Schouman (1770 – 1848) was a Dutch painter who specialised in

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Biography

Schouman was born in 1770 in

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. According to the RKD he was the pupil and grandnephew of

Aert Schouman Aert Schouman or Aart Schouman (4 March 1710 – 5 July 1792) was an 18th-century painter, now better known as a glass engraver, from the Dutch Republic. Schouman was born in Dordrecht. When 15 years old he served as apprentice to the Dordrec ...

and the brother of Aert II.Martinus Schouman
in the

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His pupils were

Pieter Arnout Dijxhoorn Pieter Arnout Dijxhoorn (1810–1839), a Dutch marine painter, was born at Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It ...

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, Matthijs Quispel,

Johannes Christiaan Schotel Johannes Christiaan Schotel (11 November 1787 – 21 December 1838) was a 19th-century painter from the Netherlands known for his marines and artwork. Talent was handed down by generation to the next throughout the Schotel family producing nu ...

, and his son Izaak Schouman. He is known for marines and landscapes and was a member of the Dordrecht artist's society Pictura and the Royal society of the fine arts in Brussels. He died in 1848 in

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References

Martinus Schouman
on

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