Rienk Jelgerhuis

Rienk Jelgerhuis (13 April 1729 – 17 April 1806) was a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman.^[1]

Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fame as a travelling portrait-painter and has no fewer than 7,763 portraits standing to his credit.^[2] He taught his son, Johannes Jelgerhuis, who became an accomplished painter, illustrator and actor. Rienk Jelgerhuis died in Amsterdam.

References

^ (Dutch) data
^ Marius, G. Hermine (1908). Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century. Alexander Moring Ltd. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dutch_Art_in_the_Nineteenth_Century.

External links

Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie
Union List of Artist Names

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Name	Jelgerhuis, Rienk
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Date of birth	13 April 1729
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Date of death	17 April 1806
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