Pierre-Louis Dubourcq

Place: Amsterdam

Born: 1815

Death: 1873

Biography:

Pierre Louis Dubourcq was a Dutch painter, draftsman, etcher and lithographer. Dubourcq was born in Amsterdam as the son of Victor Honoré Dubourcq and Marie Adelaide Revet. His father had settled in Amsterdam in 1803 as a French merchant. Dubourcq studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam and was a pupil of Andries Schelfhout. He was an ardent traveler and visited Germany, France, Switzerland and Belgium. He became a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam and won an honorable mention for a landscape in a competition at Felix Meritis in 1818. In 1832, he 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.