Reinier Vinkeles (1741 – 1816) was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the
Northern Netherlands
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, who was the teacher of several talented artists.
Biography
Vinkeles was born in 1741, in
Amsterdam
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Hermanus Numan
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When he returned to Amsterdam he worked making prints for book illustrations, including portraits, topographical and architectural prints, copies after Dutch masters, and theatre sets.Reinier Vinkeles in the
RKD
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He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie]and was a member of the artist's club Pax Artium Nutrix. He became the teacher of Jacob Ernst Marcus, Jacobus Millies, his son Abraham Vinkeles, his brother Harmanus Vinkeles (1745-1804), his son Johannes Vinkeles, and Daniël Vrijdag.
Vinkeles died in 1816, in Amsterdam.
Gallery
File:Oih amsterdam.jpg, Oost-Indisch Huis, 1768
File:Rasphuis0.jpg, The
Rasphuis
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was a prison and poorhouse in one. Note the prisoner being brought in with handcuffs.
File:Petrus Bertius by Vinkeles 1787.jpg,
Petrus Bertius
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