Jan Baptist van der Hulst

Jan Baptist van der Hulst ( born March 2, 1790 in Leuven, † May 16 1862 in Brussels) was a Belgian portraitist and history painter and lithographer

Jan Baptist van der Hulst received his education at the Art Academy in Leuven as a pupil of the Flemish painter Pierre Josse Geedts. Subsequent study tours have taken him to Paris in 1819 and from 1825 to 1827 to Rome. The appointment of William I. of the Netherlands at the court lived van der Hulst 1830 to The Hague, where he was nineteen years of artistic work. Only after the death of William II, he returned in 1849 in his Belgian homeland.

Van der Hulst painted mainly portraits and religious subjects. One of his earliest works was the partial representation of the " host miracle " from a sequence of images in the church of Sint Jacob in Leuven. The portrait paintings are almost all privately owned and held in The Hague locks Noordeinde Palace and Huis ten Bosch. In addition, at the Museum Het Loo in Apeldoorn, in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Museum Lakenhal in Leiden.

Works (selection)

  • Host miracle, church Sint Jacob, lions
  • Nativity, Church of Waudrichem at Gorcum
  • Countess of couple, 1826
  • Louise of Prussia, wife of Frederick of Orange- Nassau, in 1830 ( in Glienicke Palace, Berlin)
  • William I of the Netherlands, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
  • Wilhelmine of Prussia, 1791 wife of William I and Queen of the Netherlands
  • Wilhelm II and his family, 1832
  • Anna Pavlovna, wife of William II and in 1840 Queen of the Netherlands, 1837
  • William II of the Netherlands, 1848
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Nikolaus Albert of Orange- Nassau (1836-1846) at the age of two years. Son of Louise and Frederick of Orange- Nassau, 1838
  • Portrait of a Young Woman, 1844
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