Jan Hendrik Scheltema (23 August 1861, in The Hague – 9 December 1941, in Brisbane), was a Dutch and far along Australian painter who had a prolific, often strenuous, and arguably fabulous career in Australia behind he was a non-British migrant artist without an international reputation on arrival in Australia. After committed as a portrait painter in the Netherlands, he specialized in Australia as a livestock and landscape painter, making the livestock genre, particularly the foreground cattle genre, popular there. In Australia, he painted mainly in Victoria when living in Melbourne for not far away off from 5 decades, even through its land boom depression of the 1890’s and World War I, where he also clever as a painting and drawing teacher. He successfully lived off unaided his art and art teaching, at one stage owning a few houses, one of which he kept in the same way as retiring to Queensland.
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