Jan Maurits Quinkhard

Training under Julius Quinkhardt the elder is recorded. Julius Henricus Quinkhard is recorded as having studied under Jan Maurits Quinkhard. The recorded working language is Dutch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Works named in the authority record are Portrait of Bernardus de Bosch I (1709-1786), Poet, Art Patron and husband of Margaretha van Leuvenigh in Amsterdam, Portrait of Margaretha van Leuvenigh, Wife of Bernardus de Bosch and Portrait of Margaretha Trip, Wife of Hendrik van de Poll. Work by Jan Maurits Quinkhard is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Amsterdam Museum and Museum Rotterdam.

Quinkhard was born in the town of Rees, near Cleves. He was a Dutch painter and scholar of his father, the painter Julius Quinkhardt the Elder, Arnold van Boonen, Christoffel Lubinietski, and Nikolaas Verkolje. He painted familiar, allegorical, and mythological subjects, and was excellent in portraits, of which he painted a great number. Five good examples are in the Amsterdam Museum. His son Julius (1736–1776) was instructed by his father, but abandoned art for commerce. Two pictures by him are in the Amsterdam Museum. He also collaborated with Jacobus Houbraken and other leading engravers on prints of the rich and famous of Amsterdam. His pupils were: • Jurriaan Andriessen • Jan de Beijer • Tibout Regters • Adriaan Schregardus • Jan Stolker • Jan Gerard Waldorp. He died, aged 84, in Amsterdam.