Jan Maurits Quinkhard

Dutch painter

Jan Maurits Quinkhard (28 January 1688 – 11 November 1772) was an 18th-century painter and print designer from the Dutch Republic.

Biography

Quinkhard was born in the town of Rees, near Cleves. He was a Dutch painter and scholar of his father, the painter Julius Quinkhardt the Elder, Arnold van Boonen, Christoffel Lubinietski, and Nikolaas Verkolje.

He painted familiar, allegorical, and mythological subjects, and was excellent in portraits, of which he painted a great number. Five good examples are in the Amsterdam Museum.^[1]

His son Julius (1736–1776) was instructed by his father, but abandoned art for commerce. Two pictures by him are in the Amsterdam Museum. He also collaborated with Jacobus Houbraken and other leading engravers on prints of the rich and famous of Amsterdam.^[2]^[3]

His pupils were:

Jurriaan Andriessen
Jan de Beijer
Tibout Regters
Adriaan Schregardus
Jan Stolker
Jan Gerard Waldorp.^[3]

He died, aged 84, in Amsterdam.^{[citation needed]}

Notes

^ Search function Archived 18 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine in online collection of the Amsterdam Museum (use search term "Quinkhard")
^ Quinkhard search term at the Stadsarchief Amsterdam
^ ^a ^b Jan Maurits Quinkhard in the RKD

References

Quinkhard, Jan Maurits at the Netherlands Institute for Art History.
"Jan Maurits Quinkhard". Artnet.

Attribution:

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Quinkhardt, Jan Maurits". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.