Who is Aert Schouman?

Aert Schouman or Aart Schouman (4 March 1710 – 5 July 1792) was an 18th-century painter, now bigger known as a glass engraver, from the Dutch Republic.

Schouman was born in Dordrecht. When 15 years out of date he served as apprentice to the Dordrecht artiste Adriaan van der Burg, along next Cornelis Greenwood, the son of his literary for glass engraving, Frans Greenwood, inventor of the stipple style, which Schouman then worked in. Schouman was odd among painters in that he kept a detailed diary of his professional vibrancy from 16 October 1733 to 16 November 1753. He took upon his first art pupil in 1733 and continued teaching for the settle of his life. From 1742 until 1792 he was head of the Dordrecht Guild of St. Luke, and in 1751 he became regent of the Hague drawing literary associated taking into account the Confrerie Pictura of The Hague. In 1736 he founded the “Brotherhood” of the Confrerie in The Hague, a fraternity of amateur art lovers from Dordrecht and environs, of which he was headman during the years 1752–1762.

Schouman was a leading performer in Zeeland amid 1735 and 1785. During that mature he lived and worked in Dordrecht, The Hague and Middelburg and taught pupils in Dordrecht and The Hague. He travelled to England twice and assembled an important addition of paintings. He was a prolific and versatile Dutch painter, glass engraver, printmaker, collector and dealer, who produced still lifes, biblical and mythological themes, natural history studies, genre, historical and topographical works, portraits, sketches, etchings and mezzotints. He meant tapestries, painted wall-hangings and ornamented objects such as fans, snuffboxes and even the glass windows of a magic lantern. His pupils were Wouter Dam, Jabes Heenck, Dirk Kuipers, Pieter Willem van Megen, Nicolaes Muys, Jan van Os Joris Ponse, Martinus Schouman (his grandnephew), Jan Willem Snoek, Rutger Moens Taats, Wouter Uiterlimmige, Wilhelmus Vincentius, Jacobus Vonck, and Daniël Vrijdag. He died in The Hague, aged 82.

His painting of Cornelis van Lill [nl], the Dordrecht art stasher and Maecenas, gives an sharpness into the association between player and patron.