Portret van Willem Herreyns
Medium
lithography
Dimensions
260; 335
About this artwork
inscription: ‘Vlaams schilder, later directeur der teekenacademie te Antwerpen + 1827 / (Eenigen bij den lithographer voorhanden) / Gepl. v. d. lithograpeur’
About the Artist
Jan Baptist Tetar van Elven · 1805–1879
Jan Baptiste Tetar van Elven (1805–1879) was a Dutch Romantic painter who specialized in meticulously rendered church interiors, a genre with deep roots in Dutch artistic tradition extending back to the seventeenth-century masters Pieter Saenredam and Emanuel de Witte. Working during the nineteenth century when Romanticism's fascination with Gothic architecture and medieval spirituality coincided ...