Johan Georg Schwartze
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Johan Georg Schwartze (October 14, 1814 - August 27, 1874) was a Dutch painter. Schwartze is also the father of painter Therese Schwartze. He was born and died in Amsterdam. He was a painter of portraits and historical themes.
As a child he left Amsterdam for Philadelphia, where he was taught by Emanuel Leutze. In 1838 he returned to Europe and spent six years at the Düsseldorf Academy under Von Schadow and Sohn. At the same time, he took private lessons from the landscape-painter Lessing.[1]
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- ^ Marius, G. Hermine (1908). Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century. Alexander Moring Ltd. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dutch_Art_in_the_Nineteenth_Century.
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