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Rienk Jelgerhuis

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Self-portrait at the age of 62

Rienk Jelgerhuis (13 April 1729 – 17 April 1806) was a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman.[1]

Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fame as a travelling portrait-painter and has no fewer than 7,763 portraits standing to his credit.[2] He taught his son, Johannes Jelgerhuis, who became an accomplished painter, illustrator and actor. Rienk Jelgerhuis died in Amsterdam.

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  1. ^ (in Dutch) data
  2. ^ Marius, G. Hermine (1908). Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century. Alexander Moring Ltd.
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