Johan Adolph Rust

Place: Amsterdam

Born: 1828

Death: 1915

Biography:

Johan Adolph Rust was a Dutch painter and Theosophist. He was born in Amsterdam and studied with the master architectural painter Cornelis Springer. He worked mostly in oil for his most accomplished and desirable works. He was one of the first artists who introduced luminism to the Netherlands. Hart was his mother's maiden name. He adopted it in 1884 when all of her brothers had died without issue. During his student years he was a renowned amateur racing cyclist.