| Code | DS/UK/390 |
| Dates | 18/05/1864-01/07/1925 |
| Person Name | Veth; Jan Pieter (18/05/1864-01/07/1925); Prof.Dr.h.c. |
| Surname | Veth |
| Forenames | Jan Pieter |
| Title | Prof.Dr.h.c. |
| Activity | Dutch (Portrait) painter , poet, art critic and university lecturer; Professor h.c. History of Art and Aesthetics (Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam) (1906). |
| Relationships | Father: Gerradus Huibert Veth, a Dordrecht iron merchant and liberal politician; mother: Anna Cornelia Giltay. On his mother's side he descended from the Dordrecht painter family of Van Strij (his mother was a granddaughter of Jacob van Strij); Married Anna Dorothea Dirks (10/08/1888); five children. |
| History | Studied Painting at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1880-85). Co-founder of St. Luke group (with fellow students); worked with painter Anton Mauve in Laren (1885-). After his marriage settled in Bussum (1888-). Amongst his sitters (for portraits) were Max Liebermann, Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen, Wilhelm von Bode and others; well-known poet, belonging to the Eighties movement and publishing work in the De Nieuwe Gids; designed the cover for "De Kleine Johannes", a book written by his friend, Frederik van Eeden, contributing to the development of book-art in Holland. |
| Source | "Veth, Jan Pieter." Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart 34. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, p. 314; Huizinga, Johan. Leven en werk van Jan Veth. Haarlem: Tjeenk Willink, 1927; Ekkart, R. E. O. Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 3. The Hague, 1989, pp. 621-22; "Veth, Jan [Pieter]", <http://www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org/vethj.htm> [accessed 18/10/2010] |
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