Adriaan de Lelie

Adriaan de Lelie (self-portrait)

Adriaan de Lelie (19 May 1755 in Tilburg – 30 November 1820 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter.

De Lelie was a pupil of A. Peeters, a painter of tapestries and ornaments, and afterwards of Andreas Bernardus de Quertenmont in Antwerp. He made copies of many portraits by Rubens and Van Dyck in Düsseldorf, 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 Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Jan Adriaan Antonie de Lelie, François Montauban van Swijndregt, Pièrre Recco, Izaak Riewert Schmidt, and Johannes Ziesenis.

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  The Art Gallery of Jan Gildemeester Jansz, 1794-1795, now at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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  Andreas Bonn lectures the Drawing Academy of the Felix Meritis Society, 1792, now in the Amsterdam Museum
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  Preparing for the sale of the new herring, by de Lelie and Willem van Leen, 1815, in the Visserijmuseum in Vlaardingen
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  A girl with a letter
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  Jan Nieuwenhuyzen, in the Edams Museum in Edam

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "De Lelie, Adriaan". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.