Hermanus van Brussel

Hermanus van Brussel, a landscape painter and etcher, was born at Haarlem in 1763, and died at Utrecht in 1815. Among his best etchings is mentioned a set of twenty-one landscapes with figures.

Landscape in stormy weather, 1794, Teylers Museum

Biography

According to the RKD he was a pupil of Johan Bernhard Brandhof, Christiaan Henning and Wybrand Hendriks.[1] He later became the teacher of Woutherus Mol.[1]

He was known for his set designs for the Amsterdam Theatre and Het Loo Palace. In Haarlem he was a member of the amateur playhouse society "Kunstliefde" and made many set designs for them. Like many Dutch painters of his time, his works paid great attention to the skies as the land was often relatively featureless.[2]

Note

1. Hermanus van Brussel in the RKD
2. Dickins, Rosie (2003). The Usborne Introduction to Art: Usborne Publishing

References

• Hermanus van Brussel on Artnet
• Hermanus van Brussel (1763-1815) : biografie en catalogus van zijn prentwerk, by Bert Sliggers, 1999, Issue 20 of Delineavit et sculpsit

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Brussel, Hermanus van". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
• Hermanus van Brussel, by The British Museum