Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever

From left to right: Hein Kever, Geo Poggenbeek and Nicolaas Bastert

Hein, or Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever (1854 1922), was a 19th-century Dutch painter.

Biography

The apple orchard, 1900

He was born in Amsterdam. According to the RKD he was a pupil of Petrus Franciscus Greive and after Greive died, his nephew Johan Conrad Greive at the Rijksakademie.[1] In 1878 Kever studied under Charles Verlat at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) in Antwerp. He settled in Blaricum, but had a pied-à-terre in Amsterdam on the Oosterpark where he stayed during the winter. In 1887 he married and moved to Laren. He was an active member of Arti et Amicitiae and members there who were also his neighbors in the winter months were Geo Poggenbeek, Nicolaas Bastert and later Willem Witsen, Isaac Israëls and George Breitner.[1] He died in Laren.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Home Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever". Retrieved 5 October 2014.

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