Jan Adam Kruseman

Jan Adam Kruseman
Jan Adam Kruseman, Public domain

(1804–1862) painter from the Northern Netherlands (1804–1862)

Jan Adam Kruseman (Netherlands, 1804–1862) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan Adam Kruseman belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Jan Adam Kruseman was born in Haarlem and died in Haarlem. Jan Adam Kruseman trained at Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem. Wikidata associates Jan Adam Kruseman with Romanticism. Jan Adam Kruseman became a member of Arti et Amicitiae and Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The students included Jozef Israëls.

The best-known works include ‘The Prophet Elisha and the Shunamite Woman’, ‘A young Girl Reposing’, and ‘Portrait of Rodolphe le Chevalier, Merchant in Amsterdam and one of three Founders of the Holland Iron Railroad Company’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 45 works by Jan Adam Kruseman with free images. The dated works span the years 1827–1861. Works by Jan Adam Kruseman are held by several collections, among them Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Museum, Instituut Collectie Nederland, and Teylers Museum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Jacob Abels, Rudolph Wiegmann, Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay, and Jacques Raymond Brascassat.