Willem Hendrik Schmidt

Místo: Rotterdam

Narozený: 1809

Smrt: 1849

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Willem Hendrik Schmidt was a Dutch painter and lithographer, known primarily for genre scenes and figures. He was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands in 1809. He had several teachers, including Hendik Schaaff in Leeuwarden, Jacobus Schoemaker Doyer in Amsterdam, and Willem Hendrik Schmidt in Delft. From 1848 to 1852, he studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. He then went to Paris and took lessons from Charles Gleyre. In 1855, he established a studio in The Hague and exhibited widely in the Netherlands, France, England, and the United States. He was named a Ridder in the Order of the Oak Crown in 1863. He married Catharina Swift in 1869 and they settled in Scheveningen. He was a member of the Pulchri Studio and the Hollandsche Teekenmaatschappij, and took numerous students. He died in The Hague in 1904.