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Salomé With The Head Of John The Baptist by Jan Adam Kruseman
Salomé With The Head Of John The Baptist by Jan Adam Kruseman

Salomé

Salomé With The Head Of John The Baptist c1861 by Dutch Painter Jan Adam Kruseman (1804 – 1862); a well known portrait painter as well as a genre and landscape artist.

A Biblical portrait of Salomé the daughter of King Herodias, holding a metal bowl that holds the severed bloody head of John The Baptist which is covered with a white cloth as she stands buy a huge wall of granite blocks, outside the palace court.

Salomé With The Head Of John The Baptist is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for sale online as a uchapishaji wa turubai iliyovingirwa.

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Kruseman was born to a prominent family that would produce several well-known artists. Katika 1819, at the age of fifteen, he went to Amsterdam, and enrolled at the Tekenacademie, where he received his first lessons from his cousin, Cornelis Kruseman. Kutoka 1822 kwa 1824 he studied in Brussels with François-Joseph Navez and Jacques-Louis David.

At the age of twenty-six, katika 1830, he became Director of the Academy of Fine Arts (precursor to the Rijksakademie). Three years later, after doing a portrait of Adriaan van der Hoop, a banker with connections to the Royal Family, he received a commission to paint a posthumous portrait of Tsar Alexander I, intended as a gift for Anna Pavlovna, who was married to Crown Prince William. After William ascended to the throne, Kruseman was commissioned to paint official portraits of the Royal Family, including six of the King.

Katika 1839, along with the engraver André-Benoit Taurel (1794-1859) and Marinus Tétar van Elven (1803-1883), an architect, he became one of the founders of Arti et Amicitiae. Katika 1844, he was named a Ridder in the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

He was married in 1826 and had seven children, including Jan Theodoor Kruseman, who became a noted landscape painter. Katika 1836, his nephew, the future theologian and poet Petrus Augustus de Génestet, came to live with his family after being orphaned.

He created over 500 picha, mostly of the nobility and wealthy burghers. His portraits are notable for their lack of idealization and attention to details of clothing. He had numerous successful students; among the best-known were David Bles, Moritz Calisch and Jozef Israëls.

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