James De Rijk

Place: Hilversum

Born: 1806

Death: 1882

Biography:

James de Rijk was a Dutch painter born in Hilversum in 1806 and died in Hilversum in 1882. He was a landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. He studied drawing with Jordanus Hoorn in Amstersfoort, before following lessons from Pieter Gerardus van Os. He traveled in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland before becoming a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. He won an honorable mention for a landscape in a competition at Felix Meritis in 1818. In 1832, Jan became a member of the artist society Arti Sacrum in Rotterdam. Noteworthy among his pupils were Jacobus Theodorus Abels and Remigius Adrianus Haanen. His niece Adriana van Ravenswaay also became a painter.