Nicolaas Reijers

Place: Leiden

Born: 1719

Death: 1784

Biography:

Nicolaas Reyers was a Dutch Old Masters painter who was born in 1719. He was a pupil of Willem van Mieris and became a teacher and later director of the Leidse Tekenacademie. His pupils were Pieter Catel, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey, Nicolaas Reyers, Nicolaas Rijnenburg, and Hendrik van Velthoven. He died in Leiden in 1784.