9 facts about Reinier Vinkeles

Reinier Vinkeles (1741, Amsterdam – 1816, Amsterdam), was an 18th-century painter and engraver from the Northern Netherlands, who was the later speculative of several capable artists.

He studied for some ten years in imitation of Jan Punt and united the Amsterdam Stadstekenacademie (City Drawing School) in 1762. In 1765 he travelled to Brabant gone Jurriaan Andriessen and Izaäk Schmidt. In 1770 he left for Paris, where he studied for a year taking into consideration Jacques-Philippe Le Bas and as well as met the Dutch artists Hermanus Numan and Izaak Jansz de Wit (1744-1809). When he returned to Amsterdam he worked making prints for baby book illustrations, including portraits, topographical and architectural prints, copies after Dutch masters, and theatre sets. He became a director of the Stadstekenacademie]and was a devotee of the artist’s club Pax Artium Nutrix. He became the educational of Jacob Ernst Marcus, Jacobus Millies, his son Abraham Vinkeles, his brother Harmanus Vinkeles (1745-1804), his son Johannes Vinkeles, and Daniël Vrijdag.

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