Hendrik Jacobus Scholten
Hendrik Jacobus Scholten (1824, Amsterdam – 1907, Heemstede), was a 19th century painter from the Netherlands.
Biography
According to the RKD he was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive and Lambertus Johannes Hansen.[1] In 1852 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam.[1] He became art conservator of the Teylers Stichting in 1872, which manages the art collection of the Teylers Museum.[1] He painted several paintings that hang in the museum's galleries, as well as decorations in the Teyler's fundatiehuis, where he lived and worked from 1863 until his death.
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Flowers and cherubs in ceiling of Teyler's fundatiehuis
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He is known for various drawings, illustrations and paintings, including landscapes, flower and pastoral scenes, and was a follower of Pieter de Hooch in his interior scenes.[1] He contributed illustrations for the Dutch history book "De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland" by Jacob van Lennep.[1] Works by him hang in the Rijksmuseum and the Amsterdam Museum.[1] He became the teacher of Jacobus van Looy.[1]
